Posted on 03/26/2008 12:05:07 PM PDT by FewsOrange
An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday. Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday. "She got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said. Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from diabetic ketoacidosis, an ailment that left her with too little insulin in her body, and she had probably been ill for about 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.
The girl's parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, attributed the death to "apparently they didn't have enough faith," the police chief said. They believed the key to healing "was it was better to keep praying. Call more people to help pray," he said.
The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected, the police chief said. Telephone messages left at the Neumann home by The Associated Press were not immediately returned. The family does not attend an organized church or participate in an organized religion, Vergin said. "They have a little Bible study of a few people."
The parents told investigators their daughter last saw a doctor when she was 3 to get some shots, Vergin said. The girl had attended public school during the first semester but didn't return for the second semester. Officers went to the home after one of the girl's relatives in California called police to check on her, Vergin said. She was taken to a hospital where she was pronounced dead. The relative was fearful the girl was "extremely ill, dire," Vergin said. The girl has three siblings, ranging in age from 13 to 16, the police chief said. "They are still in the home," he said. "There is no reason to remove them. ....
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Slippery slope, punishing parents for not adhering to state-approved medical care.
Child neglect would apply more if they starved her
Grabbing some popcorn. This should be fun.
Interesting to see if the people that were bent out of shape over Schiavo don't have similar levels of outrage over this.
Sad. RIP.
BTW, FYI, the Original KJV included the Apocrypha.
He he he...
True dat, but the translators also clearly delineated the apocryphal books from the rest, and simply gave them page headers which said "Apocrypha". They didn't consider these books to be inspired scripture any more than we would consider the little concordance with maps at the end of most modern Bibles to be scripture.
These parents killed their child; they should be punished.I'm torn on this. At what point do we draw the line? In the UK, they are wanting to take kids away from fat parents, because of course, "obesity kills."
Yes, there are always gray cases, which is a big part of the reason why public policy is so tricky to formulate and enforce. And perhaps nobody saw the distress this young girl was in, perhaps the parents hid it. In that case, the only thing left to do after the tragic result is to provide for a penalty for such behavior, in hopes of deterring others from engaging in it.
There's nothing easy about such situations.
BTW, I didn’t intend to imply that the removal of obese kids from their families is a gray case. That’s clearly going too far...sending the parents to a re-education camp for a few months should suffice to take care of that problem. (heh)
Slippery slope, punishing parents for not adhering to state-approved medical care.
Child neglect would apply more if they starved her
So how many of the siblings need to die before you would grant that the law ought to step in,3? 4?
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