Dana Jones was put in jail for freeing his daughter from a hospital that was not bettering her health, to take her to another. Here is the story (from WSIL TV 3, NOT MY OWN STORY)

ELKVILLE [IL] -- An Elkville family has been split up for nearly a week now. Brittany Jones, 14, is in Milwaukee's Children's Hospital. Her father, Dana, is in a Wisconsin jail for taking her there, and her mother, Patricia, remains in Elkville. Patricia says media reports of her husband kidnapping their daughter are false.

Patricia says her family has been dealing with Brittany's kidney failure for four years now, constantly dividing their time between Elkville and Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St. Louis.

"We ended up being up at the hospital two and three weeks every month," says Brittany's mother, Patricia Jones.

Soon after her transplant in 2010, Brittany started having serious complications. Her creatinine levels, body waste, would unexpectedly rise to abnormal levels.

"They treat her like she's in rejection, so they give her very serious anti-rejection medicine, and some of it is very painful, and a painful thing to see. And when they did the biopsy, she's not in rejection," explains Patricia.

Patricia says she saw her daughter go through this procedure several times at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, with always the same negative result. Doctors soon turned the blame on her.

"Is she taking her medicine, is she taking all of her medicine? Is she taking her Prograf? Is she taking it, is she taking it, is she taking it? And that became the theme song," she exclaims.

Patricia says Brittany always took her medicine, nearly 70 pills a day. Eventually, doctors found the creatinine spikes were due to the side effects of some of their procedures.

"I had made up my mind, because there were too many incidences where it's just serious things that's being overlooked," says Patricia.

The goal was to get Brittany to Milwaukee's Children's Hospital, a place Patricia trusted after other positive family medical experiences. Then almost two weeks ago, the Department of Child and Family Services knocked on her door.

"Cardinal Glennon called DCFS and told them that my daughter was in immediate medical emergency and I walked out of the hospital with her," Patricia explains.

Brittany was put into the custody of the state and brought to the hospital for a week. Doctors said Brittany was going into rejection and wanted to give her strong anti-rejection medicine.

"That Monday, when she should have been released, it was then that they were going to start this Thymoglobulin; that my daughter would more than likely die with that tube in her arm. And that's why her daddy, who rocks, did what he did - for the health of his child," Patricia says.

Sunday morning, Dana Jones, took his daughter, a ward of the state, and drove her to the Children's Hospital in Milwaukee. Since then, Patricia says Brittany's creatinine levels are back to normal and she is doing well.

Cardinal Glennon Hospital and the Department of Children and Family Services could not talk about the situation since Brittany is a minor.

Brittany will stay in Wisconsin for now. Patricia has a shelter hearing Friday morning in Murphysboro. She's hoping to prove to the judge there was no need for DCFS to step in and that her husband did nothing wrong by taking his child to a different hospital for treatment.