Parents Charged in Faith Healing Case (allowed their son to die of something easily treatable)

[LynneSin]

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=5968611&page=1

Death of 16-Year-Old Highlights Spiritual Healing Laws
By SCOTT MICHELS
Oct. 7, 2008

The prosecution of an Oregon couple who allegedly tried to heal their dying son with prayer has focused attention on laws that, in some cases, allow parents to treat their children with faith.

The Beagleys prayed for their son instead of seeking medical attention.Jeffrey Dean Beagley, 50, and Marci Rae Beagley, 46, pleaded not guilty on Friday to criminally negligent homicide charges in the death of their son, 16-year-old Neil Jeffrey Beagley.

Neil died June 17 from complications of a urinary tract blockage, according to medical examiners. The condition, which doctors say is easily treatable, caused kidney and heart failure.

The Beagleys belong to a religious sect known as the Followers of Christ Church, which rejects medical treatment and, instead, relies on prayer. Several relatives who were with Neil Beagley at the time of his death told police that he had refused medical care, according to the Gladstone, Ore., police.

[northernsoul]

1. Good.

Child neglect is child neglect, so matter what bullshit excuses are offered.

[Ghost in the Machine]

2. And the dumbasses will try to rationalize it to themselves that

"God let him die because he must have needed Neil in Heaven more than we needed him here"... and they'll rejoice in their sons death, never mourn him.

How can anyone believe in the sky fairy crap?

[LynneSin]

3. Yes but God also gave humans the technology to easily heal the person

You think if God wanted this kid to die he would have struck him with something totally incurable.