Divorced Couple Locked in Dispute over Ill Daughter’s Care

January 12, 2015

(The Telegraph) – A divorced couple are locked in a dispute about their terminally ill daughter’s care after the teenager’s mother demanded that she be allowed to die. Chantelle Lynch suffers from rare chromosome disorder Rett Syndrome, which has left her unable to walk, talk or feed herself. The 19-year-old has endured 40 bouts of pneumonia, constant seizures and is fed through a tube. She has lived in a care home for two years but is now seriously ill in Birmingham’s City Hospital.