The Canadian County boy's mother, who is fighting to regain custody, wanted to stop chemotherapy treatments at OU Children's Hospital last year and go instead with natural cancer treatments.
According to local news outlets, a family member called a hotline and falsely accused the mother of medical neglect.
DHS was granted emergency custody, and the teen was given a blood transfusion and began chemotherapy again without the mother's consent.
Oklahoma State Senator Shane Jett (R-District 17) thinks "every parent should be concerned" about the precedent being set here; the government is taking a child and forcing medical treatment against his parent's wishes and without the parent's consent.
Jett's office is in talks with the governor's office about this situation, as the Department of Human Services (DHS) is part of the executive branch.
The state senator also denounces the financial incentives the doctor and other healthcare providers in this situation enjoy.
"That doctor gets paid for these clients that come through," he notes.
Whenever they sell each treatment of chemo, it's $17,000 per treatment. They get paid even if the family is not affluent or if they are indigent. DHS, he adds, also gets money for "every child they put into custody."
He calls this a case of "state-sponsored kidnapping."
"We're not talking about neglect," says Jett. "This isn't a kid that was in a cage, in squalor and dying of malnutrition. This is a kid in an incredibly engaged and loving home, and this kid was mowing the lawn with his stepdad two Saturdays ago whenever DHS showed up and wanted to have proof of life."
He goes on to encourage voters to reach out to and urge House and Senate members to pass robust parental rights protection so that this does not happen again.
"Also, we need to end this anonymous hotline mess where you can call in and lie about parents," Jett adds.
