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Religious Fanatics Charged with Murder

April 28, 2008

It’s about time!  As I wrote in a previous post, I think these religious nuts who refuse to get medical care for their kids (they think that God will cure them – no need for doctors or medicine) should be charged with murder. 

It looks like that’s going to happen.  According to FoxNews, Parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes will be charged with second-degree reckless homicide, the Marathon County district attorney said Monday.

Dale and Leilani Neumann are clueless.  Leilani Neumann, 40, told AP previously she never expected her daughter to die. The family believes in the Bible, which says healing comes from God, but they are not crazy, religious people and have nothing against doctors, she said.

Ok, she says they’re “not crazy religious people” but what would you call it when someone in California knows that it’s severe and calls an ambulance before the parents do anything except pray as their daughter dies?

According to the story a daughter-in-law in California, who called police on a non-emergency line to report the girl was in a coma and needed medical help. An ambulance was dispatched to the home shortly before some friends in the home called 911 to report the girl had stopped breathing, authorities said.

They are facing up to 25 years in prison, but I think they should fry.

gk