Judge orders brain-damaged toddler to be removed from life-support machine despite Christian parents' desperate pleas …

High Court judge orders brain damaged child's life support to be turned off Judge said it was in the child's best interests for the care to be withdrawn His parents disagreed, saying no-one had right to remove 'privilege'of life Judge: 'It is their belief that given time God may work a miracle' A failure in the boy's treatment was also referred to during court hearings The parties involved in the case are unable to be identified for legal reasons

By Corey Charlton for MailOnline

Published: 07:27 EST, 30 September 2014 | Updated: 07:29 EST, 30 September 2014

A High Court judge today ruled that a little boy with brain damage should be taken off a life-support machine despite his parents' pleas to keep him alive.

Specialists had told Ms Justice Russell that the youngster - who turned one earlier this year - had suffered irreversible brain damage and it was in the youngster's best interests for live-sustaining care to be withdrawn.

However, the boy's devout Christian parents - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - disagreed.

Today the youngster's father said no-one had the right to take away the 'privilege' of life from his son.

In words that echoed those of the parents of five-year-old cancer victim Ashya King, whose family fled the UK after disagreements with the NHS over his treatment, the babys father had said they had been made to feel our child is not our child anymore by doctors who gave no consideration to their feelings.

A mother told the High Court (pictured) that miracles do happen as she pleaded for the life of her son

Ms Justice Russell analysed the one-year-old boy's case at a hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London today - after an application by the NHS foundation trust which runs the hospital where the youngster is being cared for.

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