Mr Justice MacDonald, a High Court judge, ruled on Monday, January 29, accepted expert opinion from specialists at King's College Hospital in London that giving further intensive treatment to Isaiah Haastrup is "futile, burdensome and not in his best interests."
His parents Takesha Thomas and father Lanre Haastrup, both 36, from Peckham, south-east London, had earlier pleaded for their son to continue being given life support treatment.
Isaiah was born at the London hospital on February 18, 2017, with severe disabilities after he suffered "catastrophic" brain damage due to being deprived oxygen at birth.
Immense suffering
At an earlier hearing before the Family Division of the High Court in London, barrister Fiona Paterson, representing the hospital trust, said nobody could understand the pain and suffering the parents had endured.
The overwhelming medical evidence showed, however, that stopping treatment and providing only palliative care was in the boy's best interests.Doctors said Isaiah was in a low level of consciousness, could not move or breathe independently and was connected to a ventilator. They said he did not respond to stimulation.
His mother told the judge: "When I speak to him he will respond, slowly, by opening one eye. I see a child who is injured. He needs love. He needs care. I have it. I can give it." "To say it is so poor, it is not worth living, that is not right. It is not their decision to make," she said.
In his judgement, Mr Justice MacDonald said: "Examining Isaiah's best interests from a broad perspective….I am satisfied that it is not in his best interests for life-sustaining treatment to be continued. That, with profound sadness, is my judgement."