Faith healing couple acquitted of manslaughter charges! How can this happen?

[binny]

Is it just me or does anyone else feel that this is insane? Do we live in such a delusional word that this is acceptable? A 15 month old child died because the parents tried to pray her better. She had pneumonia and would have survived if they were to seek medical treatment. Now these parents are free to bread again, and probably kill again. I can't believe the jury came to this decision. It boggles my mind. At the very least these people should be in jail for manslaughter. The father was found guilty of criminal mistreatment. A misdemeanor. A juror said they convicted the father on the criminal mistreatment charge because they felt their should be some repercussion for the child's death. Repercussions for the child's death? Ha! I'm sure he will be put on probation, if that, for a little while and serve no jail time. This angers me to no end. This child was only 15 months old and died for no reason! It's a different story if the parents want to rely on prayer instead of seeing a medical professional, but how are we suppose to protect the children of these nut jobs?

Link: http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_cont...g=eng_news

[Tiberius]

(I put a link in your post btw)

This is simply terrible news. It's absolutely disgusting that even though the law was put in place to prevent this sort of thing, the parents manage to find a way around it. That church should be shut down and its entire congregation prosecuted.

[binny]

Agreed! And thanks for putting up a link, I was so in shock by the whole thing it slipped my mind

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I just found out from my sister, the nut job mom is pregnant again.

[Purple Rabbit]

Disgusting feature of religious dogma in its natural habitat.

[Eilonnwy]

This is really disturbing and heartbreaking, but thanks for posting. I'll post a quick blurb on it to examiner.com

[binny]

Apparently the death rate of children in this church is 26 times higher than that of the general public. Clearly this is child abuse.

[karatepig]

Stupid, just stupid. Here we are in the year 2009, and people still want to worship an invisible, magical wizard man in the sky. And because of this, innocent children, infants even, must be allowed to die needless death!? If anyone, and I mean anyone, can read a story like this, and still try to defend "the power of prayer", then they are stubborn fools.

[Pippy]

I can't help it...
I think prayer has many uses, and is very useful. These people used it wrong. Some people jump off of tall buildings, so are tall buildings all bad with no redeeming qualities? I defend the power of prayer to do other things than what these people tried to make it do. Do I still get to be a stubborn fool?
-Pip

[Rhizomorph13]

But Pippy,

Tall buildings are proven to actually do something.

Rhizo

[karatepig]

I can't help it...
I think prayer has many uses, and is very useful. These people used it wrong. Some people jump off of tall buildings, so are tall buildings all bad with no redeeming qualities? I defend the power of prayer to do other things than what these people tried to make it do. Do I still get to be a stubborn fool?
-Pip

Ow, I see. God will answer every prayer, unless you use it for the wrong things, like saving someone's life. How could I have been so blind.