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The anti-vaccine parents who snatched their wheelchair-bound four-year-old boy from hospital were allowed to take him home after police found them.
Marc Alexander Steven, 28, and mother, Jacinda 'Cini' Walker, 26, posted a series of videos hours after triggering a police search across two states when they took their son Chase from the hospital against doctors' orders.
The couple appeared to be exhausted, alternating between tearful and angry as they talked about their son and their ordeal.
They claimed it all began when they took Chase to an appointment at Lady Cilento Children's hospital in Brisbane because they were worried about his feeding tube.
Child services then allegedly came and said to admit him or they would do it by force, so they took Chase and left about 12.30pm on Thursday.
Police launched a search, saying there were serious concerns for Chase's wellbeing because he suffers from a serious medical condition needing urgent and ongoing medical attention.
Chase and his parents were found in Newcastle about 5pm on Friday and taken without incident to John Hunter Hospital.
It was not clear why they drove there but the Church of Ubuntu, which the couple are involved with, is based there and its co-founder Karen Burge was seen with them in the videos.
After taking their sick son from the Lady Cilento and driving him 8.5 hours south to Newcastle, Chase was released to them and police said no charges would be laid.
Once at John Hunter Hospital, Ms Walker sniffled as he sat hugging her son insisting he wasn't sick enough to be kept in hospital and 'just had a cold' like she did.
'You look at the camera Chase and tell the world how you feel mate, you tell ‘em I’m alert, I’m awake and I’m better than I’ve ever been,' she said.
'Truth is going to come out and everyone’s not going to be happy. It’s not nice to harass families, especially ones that are trying to heal their children and bring them love and joy in the world.'
Less than an hour later Ms Walker gave a 10-minute angry rant to the camera in the hospital's car park where she raged against 'the system' she accused of trying to steal her son.
'They want to take my child and keep him in overnight with police standing around,' she said.
'I'm done I want my family back i'm over the fact that the system thinks they can do this to me. I don't care about the gag of two years prison, do it!
'You're not going to hurt my kid anymore... I'd rather go to jail than watch another family be destroyed like ours.
'If we don't stand up we should just roll over and give up and shoot ourselves in the back of the head because we need to protect our kids and no one is.'
She alleged that a doctor at John Hunter Hospital said he was not urgently sick and if he were her patient she would let him go home and follow up two days later.
'I know my son's healthy, he's got a cold just like I do. If my son could speak, he'd say he's not sick and wants to leave,' Ms Walker said.
'I know my son better than anyone else in the world.'