Faith-Healing Parents Get Up to 7 Years for Infant Son's Death

[zappaman]

A Pennsylvania couple who believe in faith-healing rather than modern medicine will each spend the next three and half to seven years behind bars for the death of their 8-month-old son, the second time one of their ill children died without seeing a doctor.

Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner told Herbert and Catherine Schaible on Wednesday that it wasn't 8-month-old Brandon's time to die.

He said: "You've killed two of your children... not God, not your church, not religious devotion -- you."

At the time, they were under court orders to seek medical care for their children after their 2-year-old son Kent died of untreated pneumonia in 2009.

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Faith-Healing-Death-PArents-Sentencing-246124671.html

[shenmue]

1. So sad

It's strange that they wouldn't accept medical treatment for the child because of their religion. Since they were Christian, they should have accepted care - St. Luke the Apostle was a physician.

[zappaman]

2. One would think.

Senseless.

[KatyaR]

3. But that would be doubting god.

Seven years is not even close to enough for letting TWO children die.

[Sunlei]

4. so sad how the children always suffer the most in these cults