Could parents should be prosecuted? Should they be prosecuted? I dunno. I can see two sides to this, but I’m leaning toward the parents needing to be severely punished.
It doesn’t sound like the child was ill very long, faith and science can go together, I mean you can pray for healing and still seek out medical advice. God heals people all the time using physicians. I think the purpose of this article, the way it is written is to bash religion and show how “simple minded” people of faith are. I would have to have more details to know whether or not the should be prosecuted.
Yes. If not, where do we draw the the line? How about a toddler who falls into a pool or river, and the parents just stand next to the water and pray while the child drowns?
Negligent homocide. No different than if they’d starved their kid to death to drive out demons. They believed they were doing the right thing, but they directly caused the death of their child. Same as if they had wrapped their kid up in a blanket (carpet? can’t remember the details of that one) and hugged the demons out of her, causing her death.