Twisted Parents Who Prayed While Daughter Died Guilty of Murder
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According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel a twisted Wisconsin couple is headed either to jail or the US Supreme Court after a state court upheld their homicide convictions in the faith-healing death of their daughter.
(AP Photo/Wausau Daily Herald, Rob Orcutt, File)
Christian lunatics Dale and Leilani Neumann prayed over 11-year-old Madeline instead of calling a doctor as she died from easily treatable complications of diabetes in 2008. They were convicted of reckless homicide the following year, but their 180-day jail sentences, an outrage in and of itself, were put on hold as they appealed. The state Supreme Court sided against them this morning, leaving the highest court in the land as their only remaining legal option. It’s unclear whether they will appeal.
Their attorney argued they should be shielded from penalty because parents who choose spiritual treatment for their kids can’t be charged with child abuse, reports AP. Prosecutors said that’s true, but all bets are off if the child dies. The couple also made the case that it was impossible for them to know their daughter was on the brink of death because the symptoms were vague. Yes, and that’s the whole the whole point of calling a doctor in the first place, the court concluded. “If we were to adopt the parents’ reasoning, no prayer-treating parent would know what point is beyond ‘a substantial risk of death’ until the child actually stopped breathing and died.”
Were it up to most Americans, 180 days in jail for murdering their own daughter would hardly be sufficient punishment, but in this country Jesus, and religion reign supreme.
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Bible People: WAKE UP! It’s all lie. WAKE UP!
Religion eh? Where would we be without it?
Maybe vacationing at the Marsport Hilton?
I took this case somewhat personally, because my state senator sponsored a bill that would have let these idiots off the hook. Had I been the prosecuting attorney, I would have asked the parents, “Why the fuck do you think god gave us doctors?”
…and that would have been a good question!
Six months for willful ignorance is one thing but for allowing a child to die? sixty years is more like it. Even then, the child will still be dead.
“What’s the harm in religion?” the desperately dumb ask. This is a great example.