It happens far too often.
They probably didn’t pray hard enough!
PHILADELPHIA – April 23, 2013 (WPVI) — A Philadelphia couple – serving 10 years’ probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor – has violated their probation now that another of their children has died.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible belong to a fundamentalist Christian church that believes in faith-healing.
Philadelphia Judge Benjamin Lerner said at a hearing they violated the most important condition of their probation: to seek medical care for their remaining children.
Authorities have yet to file criminal charges in the death of the 8-month-old boy last week, after he suffered with diarrhea and breathing problems for days. But charges could be filed once authorities pinpoint how the baby died.
Yes, let them kill their children in the name of the diety!
My Sig Other grew up in a very rural part of NW Georgia. Members of his family that belonged to a church that practiced the same kind of things. Many of of his cousins died from ruptured appendixes. He has told me tales of watching his helpless cousins suffer and die “because it was God’s will.” His mother rejected the church at 18, but, many of his aunts followed the church and its rules regarding dress, makeup and marrying other members of the church. Oh, and then there was the money the church demanded from these mill workers who were in poverty.
This church still exists today……
Prosecute God, it was his failure to act responsibly upon timely prayers.
Fundamentalists of any religion should be barred from having children.
Those two look like psychopaths to me. Two babies dead? That smells like maybe they didn’t just “let” those kids die to me.