Another Set of Faith-Healing Parents Arrested After Allowing Their Daughter to Die

[Timshel]

Why should we allow these wackos kill their kids?

This sort of thing is likely to occur more often due to science deniers. They will probably claim medical care is an article of faith like they do with evolution.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendl...table-disease/

In 2012, Greg and JaLea Swezey were sentenced to five years of probation after they allowed their 17 year-old son Zachery to die of appendicitis… even though it was completely preventable:


The Swezeys were not practitioners of Christian Science, but they were members of the Church of the First Born, a church that also endorses “faith-healing.” Why see a doctor when God will cure all?! (Except when He doesn’t.)

Now, it’s happened again — to another family from the same church.


Travis and Wenona Rossiter were arrested yesterday on charges of manslaughter because they allowed their 12-year-old daughter Syble to die of Type I diabetes this past February and a months-long investigation revealed that the parents withheld “necessary and adequate” medical attention from her: