Case happened in the United Kingdom. Brothers of the young woman They require mother to be held responsible for her sister’s death.
Paloma Shemirani died in July 2024, at the age of 23, cancer victim, after rejecting chemotherapy.According to the brothers, the decision was strongly influenced by his mother, Kate Shemirani, a former enfected and activist known for her radical positions against conventional medicine.
“Our mother convinced Paloma that doctors would kill her. I told her that chemotherapy was poison,” Gabriel, the young woman’s twin brother to the BBC.
Instead of following prescribed clinical treatments, Paloma adopted alternative methods promoted by the mother, based on enemas and vegetable juices.
The brothers, Gabriel and Sebastian, tried to intervene. Even contacted lawyers to force the young woman to receive medical treatment, But they were informed that, being of age and mentally capable, Paloma had the right to decide.
“They told us that there was nothing to do while she was alive,” Sebastian explained. “When justice finally acted, it was too late.”
Brothers ask for justice
Paloma died at home, in cardiac stop, caused by tumor progression. However, expert ensure that the type of cancer of the young woman was curable, if it was treated with the appropriate medical intervention.
Now the brothers require mother to be held responsible for her sister’s death and appeal one more rigorous regulation of medical content on social networks.
“There should be no medical statements that go against scientific consensus, and there should be an independent body that could blame the platforms regarding medical content,” said Gabriel.
“Our sister died for believing in lies. We don’t want anyone else to suffer the same fate,” he added.
According to Gabriel and Sebastian, radical positions and mother’s conspiracy theories have always been presentbut intensified from 2012, when Kate was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although the tumor has been surgically removed, The former enfected one said that its recovery was due to, above all, to the alternative therapies that adopted, rejecting the role of conventional medicine.
From there, according to the brothers, the mother began to try to further impose these ideas on the children, Promoting a vision of distrust of science, doctors and any form of medical authority.
According to the brothers, Paloma was the only one who could never free herself from her mother’s influence.
“Our mother used fear and misinformation to control. Paloma believed she was protecting herself, but was actually dying,” Gabriel said.
Kate Shemirani says daughter“It was never forced”
On social networks, Kate Shemirani has reacted to her children’s accusations and guarantees that the daughter “It was never forced” Nothing.
In a publication on social network X, Kate even presented a letter from April 2024 written by Paloma, where the young woman indicates that she never suffered from abuse by the mother.
For Kate Shemirani, her daughter died from “A chain of serious medical errors, violations of the consent law, falsification of medical records and the reckless use of emergency drugs.”
