Baby taken into care over risky ‘treatment’

A baby boy whose father advocates the use of “harmful alternative medication” should be taken into council care, a family court judge has decided.

The man had sold Master Mineral Solution (MMS) as a treatment for cancer and autism, social services staff told Judge Helen Black.

Staff said MMS was a sodium chlorite solution equivalent to industrial-strength bleach. They said the man advocated the use of MMS and his website included “paraphernalia for the administration of such products to babies”.