(May 25, 2013 at 10:29 pm)Minimalist Wrote:The horseshit the first time was that they wouldn't do it again. This time they say that, although they now know the child can die, they still won't seek medical advice. That's no longer reckless disregard (manslaughter), it's a planned act (murder).Quote:"We believe in divine healing, that Jesus shed blood for our healing and that he died on the cross to break the devil's power," Herbert Schaible, 44, told Philadelphia homicide detectives after their ninth child, Brandon, died in April. Medicine, he said, "is against our religious beliefs."Just another example of the vileness which is religion. Granted, these two fuckers are extreme examples. Of course, what does it say about the judge who bought their horseshit the first time?
The law can't do anything until parents like this lose a child, or have one so sick that the authorities feel that they can't ignore the situation. (But they have to learn about it to do something about it.) They can't take the kids away solely because "people of that Church" may not seek medical care if one of their children contracts a possibly fatal illness. Thought crime isn't illegal.
And if the parents play the "we sincerely believed the child would live, but we'll go to a doctor next time" card, many judges will err on the side of freedom of religion.
It's disgusting. They should have gone to prison the first time and the kids should have been adopted out - to people who "believe in" medicine.
