i think second degree wreckless homicide is too lenient

i would have gone for first degree MURDER. praying instead of seeking medical help? you can pray all you want. i swear i really don't care. however, you can get your ass in a car, a bus, a train, a boat and get your daughter to a medical professional at the SAME TIME you're uttering your words to your god. the girl couldn't walk she was so sick. praying?


Wis. jury: Father guilty in prayer death case

By ROBERT IMRIE (AP) – 12 hours ago

WAUSAU, Wis. — A central Wisconsin man accused of killing his 11-year-old daughter by praying instead of seeking medical care was found guilty Saturday of second-degree reckless homicide.

Dale Neumann, 47, was convicted in the March 23, 2008, death of his daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. Prosecutors contended he should have rushed the girl to a hospital because she couldn't walk, talk, eat or drink. Instead, Madeline died on the floor of the family's rural Weston home as people surrounded her and prayed. Someone called 911 when she stopped breathing.

Sitting straight in his chair, Neumann stared at the jury as the verdict in a nearly empty courtroom was read. He declined comment as he left the courthouse.

Defense attorney Jy Kronenwetter said the verdict would be appealed. He declined further comment.

Prosecutors also declined comment, citing a gag order.........

pic: (look at the f**ker smiling) Dale Neumann smiles at his defense attorney Jay Kronenwetter during his trial in Wausau, Wis. on Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Neumann, 47, is charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the 2008 death of his daughter Madeline Neumann, called Kara by her parents. His wife was convicted of the same charge this spring and faces up to 25 years in prison when sentenced Oct. 6. (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, Corey Schjoth)

i'll tell you what

i'm NOT going to be pc on this one. ANY parent who doesn't bring their child to a doctor because of religious reasons (or any other reason for that matter) when that child is ill DESERVES TO BE THROWN IN THE SLAMMER AND HAVE THE KEY THROWN AWAY. period. no mercy
(and any person who is AWARE this is happening and does NOTHING - same - IN THE SLAMMER NO MERCY)
Abusing Children in the Name of God

By Shawn F. Peters
A hemophilic boy in Pennsylvania bleeds to death over a period of two days from a small cut on his foot. An Indiana girl dies after a malignant tumor sprouts from her skull and grows so enormous that it’s nearly the size of her head. A boy in Massachusetts succumbs to a bowel obstruction. (His cries of pain are so loud that neighbors are forced to shut their windows to block out the sound.)
None of these children benefit from the readily-available medical treatments that might save their lives, or at least mitigate their suffering. Because the tenets of their parents’ religious faiths mandate it, their ailments are treated by prayer rather than medical science. The results are tragic.
It is difficult to determine precisely how many children in the United States lose their lives every year as the result of the phenomenon that has come to be known as religion-based medical neglect. A landmark study published in the journal Pediatrics uncovered more than 150 reported fatalities over a 10-year period – a tally that one of the study’s authors later said represented only “the tip of the iceberg” of a surprisingly pervasive problem. Assessing whether forms of religion-related child abuse pose a greater risk to children than more widely publicized threats, such as ritual satanic abuse, a wide-ranging study funded by the National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect concluded that “there are more children actually being abused in the name of God than in the name of Satan.”........