Lawyers to ask Wis. court to rule in prayer death
Source: newstimes.com (AP)
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A couple who prayed while their daughter slowly died of diabetes will try Tuesday to persuade the state Supreme Court to overturn their homicide convictions, arguing state law protects them from prosecution.
The case presents charged questions for the court about where religious freedom ends. The justices for the first time will have to weigh whether the state's faith-healing exemptions protect parents from criminal liability if their choices lead to a child's death.
The Wisconsin case revolves around Dale and Leilani Neumann, of Weston, a Wausau suburb in the central section of the state.
The couple's 11-year-old daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann, whom the family called Kara, fell ill in March 2008. Believing the girl was under spiritual attack, the family prayed over her. She died Easter Sunday of an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes.
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Another example of religion enabling an unjustifiable killing!
The parents, " Dale and Leilani Neumann knew their decision to withhold medical treatment had created an unreasonable risk of death, noting they sent out a mass email the night before Kara died telling others she was in poor shape and knew the girl had stopped talking, collapsed in the bathroom, turned blue and lapsed into a coma."
The penalty in this case, IMHO, was not even a slap on the wrist! They knew their own daughter was going to die!!
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