{"id":400458,"date":"2026-08-07T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400458\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T18:40:10","slug":"2-year-old-in-brain-death-dispute-is-taken-off-life-support-and-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400458\/","title":{"rendered":"2-year-old in brain-death dispute is taken off life support and dies"},"content":{"rendered":"

HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned<\/a> in a hotel pool on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died, her family said this week.<\/p>\n

Annelise Camp \u201cis now with Jesus,\u201d her parents Johnston and Joy Camp said in a statement, weeks after a judge granted a temporary injunction in their favor. \u201cWhile our hearts are broken, we trust in His perfect love, His faithfulness, and His promises.\u201d<\/p>\n

The family had long said she still showed signs of life and wanted more time for her to recover and explore treatment.<\/p>\n

Breathing tubes were removed from Annelise on Monday, her grandfather Steve Camp posted online. \u201cWhen this procedure was done, she passed very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

A church service for Annelise is scheduled for next Wednesday in Houston.<\/p>\n

The Texas Right to Life organization supported the family\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis victory gave the Camp family two extra months with Annelise and provided her a chance to recover from her injury,\u201d the organization posted online.<\/p>\n

Annelise was discovered unconscious in the hotel pool and was brought to Texas Children\u2019s Hospital in Houston. Several days later, her parents petitioned the judge, requesting that she not be tested for brain death as advised by doctors.<\/p>\n

Court documents said Annelise\u2019s heart was beating, although she was dependent on a ventilator, The Texas Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

The Camps also asked that Annelise be transferred to another hospital to explore other treatment options. However, Texas Children\u2019s stated<\/a> it wanted to conduct testing to determine next steps in her medical care and that it had no imminent plans to end care for Annelise.<\/p>\n

Texas Children\u2019s officials said in court documents they had contacted medical facilities to ask about accepting Annelise, but 35 of the 36 have declined and the one pending hospital said it needed her to undergo brain death testing to consider transfer, the Tribune reported.<\/p>\n

The Camps eventually were able to transfer Annelise to a hospital in Louisiana.<\/p>\n

A state legislator, Rep. Steve Toth, told The New York Times that Annelise was brought back to Texas about a week ago and had been treated at Christus Mother Frances Hospital in Tyler. Messages seeking comment were sent to Roth and the hospital.<\/p>\n

The Camps did not say why Annelise was removed from life support. Messages seeking comment were sent to the family.<\/p>\n

Texas law<\/a> defines brain death as the irreversible cessation of brain function. Under the law, once a patient is declared brain-dead, a hospital can withdraw life-sustaining measures.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe big common denominator is time,\u201d Johnston Camp told KRIV-TV in June. \u201cAnd so when you have time, I know scientifically you can see a certain reading, but she is showing progressive results from her body or complexions, her vitals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton also supported the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnelise Camp is fighting for her life and deserves a medical team that will fight just as hard,\u201d he posted on X in June.<\/p>\n

In July, the Camps had posted on a GoFundMe site that Annelise continued to show \u201cencouraging signs\u201d at the Louisiana hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are pursuing every available option, including specialized and exploratory treatments that show promise,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (AP) \u2014 A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[116678,140547,27,29,28,140546],"class_list":["post-400458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-annelise-camp","tag-brain-death-test","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-toddler-brain-death"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}