The 72-year-old’s chemo treatments leave him too weak to go out and clear overgrown plants, his son says.
Summary
- HAMTRAMCK, Mich. (WDIV) - A Michigan judge is being criticized after she berated a 72-year-old cancer patient for not cleaning up his lawn.
- “You should be ashamed of yourself.”Defendant Burhan Chowdhury, 72, is a cancer patient who is undergoing chemotherapy.
- His son says his treatments leave the man too weak to go out and clear overgrown plants.
- He explained that his father is a cancer patient who is undergoing chemotherapy, and that leaves him too weak to go out and clear overgrown plants.
- (Source: Family photos, WDIV via CNN)Shibbir Chowdhury calls the judge’s comment “very rude.”“Telling a cancer patient that he should go to jail,” he said.