Amish girl Sarah Hershberger, 10, and her parents, Anna and Andy Hershberger, have not contacted the court-appointed guardian allowed to make medical decisions for the little girl in two-month, the Associated Press reported.
The Amish family from Ohio stopped their daughter's leukemia treatments in August after Sarah complained of pain and nausea, common side effects for cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy.
"In October, an appellate court granted a request from Akron Children's Hospital to appoint "limited guardianship" to registered nurse and attorney Maria Schimer granting Schimer the power to make medical decisions for the girl in place of her parents," The Medina Gazette reported.
County Sheriff Tom Miller told the Gazette his office does not know the current whereabouts of the Hershbergers, but have not been "actively searching."
"It would take a court order for us to get involved," Miller said, "and I'm not anticipating a court order."
According to the Gazette, there is a possibility the Hershbergers left the United States with their daughter to seek other "alternatives" to treat Sarah's cancer.
David Augenstein, who publishes the online Journal of Natural Food and Health and contacted the family after the story went national, told the Gazette he has received phone calls from the family
"I can't tell you where they're at, but they'll call periodically from an undisclosed location using someone else's phone," Augenstein said. "I know they are in the United States."
"One of the big issues in this case is not just parental rights - not just about Sarah - but that this opens the door for these hospitals to create a lot of fear in the parents if you don't obey their orders," he added.
According to AP, Dickinson said the hospital does not plan to ask the court to help legally find Sarah or force her into treatment at this time.
