Doctor sued as treatment leads to death of autistic boy

THE parents of a five-year-old autistic boy who died after receiving a chemical treatment have sued the doctor who administered it for wrongful death.

Mawra and Rufai Nadama, from Plymouth, accused Dr Roy Kerry of causing their son, Abubakar Tariq Nadama, to die of cardiac arrest at Kerry’s office immediately after the boy received chelation therapy on August 23, 2005.

Chelation removes heavy metals from the body and is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration only for acute heavy-metal poisoning that has been confirmed by blood tests.