Ill British boy’s parents head to Spanish hospital

Brett, right, and Naghemeh King, speaks during a press conference in Sevilla, Spain, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. British prosecutors are dropping the case against a couple who ended up in a Spanish jail after they tried to get treatment abroad for their son's severe brain tumor, authorities said Tuesday. Brett and Naghemeh King were pursued by police after they took 5-year-old Ashya out of a hospital in southern England against doctors' advice and traveled to Spain, where they planned to sell a property to pay for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the U.S. They were arrested on a British warrant on suspicion of cruelty to a person under 16 years of age, and were in custody in a jail near Madrid. (AP Photo/Miguel Angel Morenatti)

By Associated Press September 3, 2014 1 min read

MADRID (AP) – The British parents who took their critically ill son for treatment abroad are heading to see him at a hospital in southern Spain following their release from custody after U.K. authorities dropped accusations of child cruelty against them.

Brett King, the father of 5-year-old Aysha, told reporters in the Spanish city of Seville that everything he and his wife did for their son was for the boy’s own good.

He also said Wednesday that the British doctors treating Aysha were aware of the family’s plans to take him abroad but did not know exactly when that would happen.

The boy has a brain tumor and is hospitalized in Malaga, a 2-hour drive from Seville. The parents were incarcerated near Madrid on Monday and released Tuesday night.