Sat, 08/01/2009 - 7:51pm — vastleft
Two Wisconsin parents have been convicted of denying their 11-year-old daughter medical care, leading to her death.
"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," Neumann testified. "I am not believing what he said he would do."
The Neumanns live in a society where almost no one is willing to admit that religious doctrine is fiction, that "holy" men and women have absolutely no idea whether there is a supernatural and, if so, what it is.
In such a place, it's hard to blame the Neumanns for failing to understand the essential facts about life, death, and medicine.
For want of a truth, a child was lost.
»
- vastleft's blog
- Login or register to post comments
Front page
Comments
Damn straight they were convicted. Sic Semper Child Abusers
because these people and others like them put their superstitious malarkey ahead of their children's lives. This little girl DIED.
Madeline Kara Neumann, of Weston, Wis., is shown in a July 2007 photo during downtown Wausau's Chalk Fest. Neumann died March 23, 2008, after her parents prayed for healing rather than getting medical help for a treatable form of diabetes.
Sadly, an Oregon jury bargained down justice for a dead baby in a similar case.
Last month, an Oregon jury convicted a man of misdemeanor criminal mistreatment for relying on prayer instead of seeking medical care for his 15-month-old daughter who died of pneumonia and a blood infection in March 2008. Both of the girl's parents were acquitted of a more serious manslaughter charge.
We can admit that we’re killers … but we’re not going to kill today. That’s all it takes! ~ Captain James T. Kirk, Stardate 3193.0
1 John 4:18
Even our damned money says "In God We Trust"
I doubt I would have voted differently on those juries, but we live in a world of lies about religion, and hardly anyone will stand up and help make it stop, so no wonder these people were duped.
I see this is two girls that have died
Wonder if more girls are treated this way, or if it's about even in numbers between girls and boys. These kinds of religious folks often think that females are less important, and should tough things out more.
Where would a person find this out? Anyone know?
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot." - Albert Einstein
Does anyone have access to the "Pediatrics" magazine archives?
Decade-old data here might be a good start:
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cg...