Homicide convictions stand for praying parents who let ailing child die Eleven-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann, died of undiagnosed diabetes in March 2008 at her home, and her parents were convicted of homicide. The decision
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At least 303 children have died since 1975 after medical care was withheld on religious grounds, Rita Swan, director of the advocacy group Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty told Stuff.Neumann, who had been growing weak for several weeks, eventually became too sick to speak, eat, drink or walk. Her parents, Dale and Leilani, who don't belong to any organised religion or church but identify themselves as Pentecostal Christians and believe visiting a doctor is akin to worshipping an idol, the court opinion said. The day before his daughter died, her father posted a message on a Christian forum
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"We need agreement in prayer over our youngest daughter, who is very weak and pale at the moment with hardly any strength," he said, reports The Huffington Post.The Neumanns resisted suggestions from her grandmother to take her to a doctor.
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