Sunday, August 2, 2009

THINGS THAT REALLY ANNOY ME......

WAUSAU, Wis. (Aug. 1) - A Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.
Dale N., 47, was convicted in the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn't walk, talk, eat or speak. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family's rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.
Neumann's 41-year-old wife, Leilani, was convicted on the same charge in the spring and is scheduled for sentencing Oct. 6. Both face up to 25 years in prison.
Their case is believed to be the first in Wisconsin involving faith healing in which someone died and another person was charged with a homicide.
The six-man, six-woman jury deliberated about 15 hours over two days before convicting N. Jurors submitted four questions to Marathon County Circuit Judge Vincent Howard before reaching a verdict. In one, the panel asked whether Neumann's beliefs in faith healing made him "not liable" for not taking his daughter to the hospital even if he knew she wasn't feeling well.
Neumann, who once studied to be a Pentecostal minister, testified Thursday that he believed God would heal his daughter and he never expected her to die. God promises in the Bible to heal, he said.
"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," Neumann testified. "I am not believing what he said he would do."
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Now I understand having faith in God and all but come on..let your child die????
Isn't God the one who gave the men and women the brains to "heal" people??
Such a sensless death of an 11 year old.

2 comments:

garnett109 said...

very sad indeed

betty said...

that is so sad; sad all ways around, for the little girl to have suffered like that and for the parents not acting to get her the care she needed; glad that he will face the punishment for his actions

God also gives wisdom to those who seek it to make wise/right choices in their lives.

betty