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Mom takes child with leukemia out of Phoenix hospital

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    Doctors say 11-year-old may die if she is not found soon

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Doctors are saying that a young girl could very will die if cops don't find her and soon.

Here's the girl they're trying to track down an eleven year old who was getting cancer treatment at a hospital in Arizona.

But cops say this surveillance video shows her mother sneaking her out of that hospital.

A very dangerous move according to doctors because the girls still as a potentially deadly piece of equipment in her heart.

A nurse who spotted them called 911.

-- actually put -- the front entrance and and walked into into the bathroom.

-- -- -- -- from her baby and then just walked up front burner in the car.

Of course it isn't necessarily a crime prepared to take that parents child out of a hospital but police say the mother's decision.

Could kill her daughter within days.

Trace Gallagher with the -- in our West Coast news hub this afternoon -- the big fear issued an infection.

Yeah because that -- -- goes directly into her heart and it's not sealed off so what kind of acts doctors say like an open wound making it very very likely that she could easily get an infection there.

A lot of once again -- -- that surveillance video look at -- right arm.

It was already amputated above the elbow and that happened because her arm got infected.

During her leukemia treatment so she's already very prone to infection.

And if it goes right to her heart doctors say she could die very quickly which is why as you can imagine authorities are now scrambling tonight.

Trying to find her -- traced to they have any theories on -- -- mom would have done this.

Well she was supposed to be released from the hospital the very next day so police say there's always a chance mom might have thought that maybe she was ready and you saw her carrying the idea out.

There's also a chance police think maybe she was unhappy with the treatment she was getting at that hospital.

And went to a different medical center but they say the odds of that are along because they simply have not resurface now police have contacted the dad.

And not even dad knows where they are so the cops are doing a couple of different things tonight one.

They are finally releasing the family's last name it is Brock a -- K so the girl.

Is eleven year old heavily Brock a -- days and now police are expanding the search was.

We have information that they have relatives not just in Mexico but also in California.

In including Arizona however they seem to be someone nomadic if you will.

Don't really have one location that they call home listen to move around between all three areas.

If police say there is a chance the mother could be facing charges here but that's kind of on the back burner right now they just wanna try and find this girl and get her into -- -- Trace Gallagher live in Los Angeles -- thanks.

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