Lisa Kosack, douze ans, a raconté avoir été transfusée à minuit lors de sa première nuit à l'Hospital for Sick Children de Toronto, après avoir dit à l'infirmière qu'elle était Témoin de Jéhovah ; l'hôpital a demandé une ordonnance judiciaire le lendemain matin et, après une audience de cinq jours tenue à l'hôpital, le juge Main a conclu qu'elle avait fait l'objet d'une discrimination fondée sur la religion et sur l'âge au sens de l'article 15(1) de la Charte canadienne, et qu'il avait été porté atteinte à son droit à la sécurité de sa personne garanti par l'article 7.
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Lisa Kosack, douze ans, a raconté avoir été transfusée à minuit lors de sa première nuit à l'Hospital for Sick Children de Toronto, après avoir dit à l'infirmière qu'elle était Témoin de Jéhovah ; l'hôpital a demandé une ordonnance judiciaire le lendemain matin et, après une audience de cinq jours tenue à l'hôpital, le juge Main a conclu qu'elle avait fait l'objet d'une discrimination fondée sur la religion et sur l'âge au sens de l'article 15(1) de la Charte canadienne, et qu'il avait été porté atteinte à son droit à la sécurité de sa personne garanti par l'article 7. Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994Source: Awake!, 22 mai 1994
Position de l’organisation ou explication ultérieure : Le juge l'a décrite comme ‘a beautiful, extremely intelligent, articulate, courteous, sensitive and, most importantly, a courageous person’, dotée d'une ‘wisdom and maturity well beyond her years’, et il a rejeté la demande.
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Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
22 mai 1994 · p.12 · par. 32 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“At midnight a nurse came in and said: ‘I have to give you some blood.’ I cried out: ‘I can’t take blood because I’m one of Jehovah’s Witnesses! I hope you know that! I hope you know that!’ ‘Well, yes, I do,’ she said, and immediately pulled out my IV and shoved in the blood. I was crying and becoming hysterical.”
Lisa Kosack’s own account, quoted in the article, of her first night at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto. She was 12 and had acute myeloid leukaemia. The hospital sought a court order the following morning.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Awake!, Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal”
Note sur la fiabilité.Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
22 mai 1994 · p.14 · pars. 46-51 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
“I must find that she has been discriminated against on the basis of her religion and her age pursuant to s. 15(1). In these circumstances, upon being given a blood transfusion, her right to the security of her person pursuant to s. 7 was infringed.”
Extracts printed in the article from the decision of Judge Main. The sections cited are sections 7 and 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. He also said he refused to make any order that would put the child through the ordeal of a forced transfusion, described her as ‘courageous’ with ‘wisdom and maturity well beyond her years’, and dismissed the application.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Awake!, Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal”
Note sur la fiabilité.Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
Notes.Reported as Re L.D.K. (1985), 48 R.F.L. (2d) 164 (Ont. Prov. Ct. (Fam. Div.)). The law report itself was not opened; the citation is confirmed from the Supreme Court of Canada.
Date de consultation. 19 septembre 2026 · Identifiant de la source.src-g94d-kosack-judgment
Publication primaire des Témoins de JéhovahVérifié
22 mai 1994 · pp.13-14 · pars. 35-44 · Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.
““Do you want to die?” “No, I don’t think anybody wants to die, but if I do die I’m not going to be scared, because I know that I have the hope of everlasting life in a paradise on earth.””
Lisa gave evidence on the fourth day of a five-day hearing held in a room at the hospital before Judge David R. Main, with Lisa present throughout. The article reports that the doctors prescribed multiple transfusions and intensive chemotherapy and put the rate of cure at 30 per cent.
Note de provenance et de vérification for Awake!, Youths Who Have “Power Beyond What Is Normal”
Note sur la fiabilité.Opened on the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and the wording, page marker and paragraph confirmed against the article text.
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