http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,341574,00.html
I think this is neglect, she suffered before she died,
I think this is neglect, she suffered before she died,
I'm sorry but to allow your child to die a slow agonizing death over a month is sickening. To continue to deny her medical treatment when it became obvious prayer wasn't working and, their childs life was in danger is the same as murdering her. How can you justify leaving the other kids in the home when the parents so called faith makes them unfit to provide for the their childrens welfare??
IMHO prayer is for when nothing else works, simple insulin shots would have saved this girl. Like someone else said God has given us brains for the purpose of self-maintenance, among other things.
Now this is really the saddest part:
"The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected, the police chief said."
This is a tough one and I don't know where I stand. I agree with scm. But then again, these parents are supposed to protect their child. It would have been different if it had been an adult who made her own decision not to seek medical treatment for herself. I wonder if the child wanted medical treatment or if she too believed in the power of prayer?
It's a sad situation nonetheless.
When their car gets low on fuel, they pull up to the pump so that they are not stranded. When they are running low on food they head to the grocery store so they do not starve. They buy toilet paper to avoid ridiculous alternatives, replace blades on their lawnmowers, put money in parking meters to avoid tickets, repaint their houses to prevent the wood from rotting, and take their dogs to the vet to be spayed or neutered.
But when it comes to the life of their child .THAT they can only pray about.
Thats not pure faith, it is selective stupidity.
Plenty of people, myself included, believe that prayer is not a last ditch, nothing else has helped practice. The vast majority of folks who use prayer in their life use it when everything is working just fine as well as when everything is not.
Of course, the Mother could also be talking about a spiritual resurrection, which many believe in.
...... I think God gave us people with knowledge to help us like a previous poster stated and these people did not take advantage of that....
SCM, if this mom believes in the same spiritual resurrection that is in the Bible, isn't that the same resurrection that everyone is going to experience according to the Bible? If she is saying that God might resurrect her daughter, doesn't she believe that it is already an inevitable fact?
I am not saying that people should not exercise their faith regardless of the cost. I am saying that the actions of these parents concerning their child do not seem to be based on a consistent enough faith to allow for her death.
WE had a similar case in Ontario. You know the "saying" spare the rod, spoil the child.
Well these "very religious" parents did just that, they hit the children with "rod" like objects that caused pain and bruising of the children.
Well Children's Aid stepped in, the parents were outraged, I mean outraged. They felt that they were "following" the bible and it was "written in the bible that what they were doing was correct".
They saw nothing and I mean nothing wrong with what they were doing and the "authorities" were discriminating against them on the basis of religious faith and "teachings of the bible".
The children were removed from the home kicking and screaming. They were only returned when the parents assured the "authorities" that they would not use objects to "discipline" the children.
The whole family "soon moved" to a remote area, in a religious area, away from authorities, far removed from prying eyes..........
What they saw as "discipline", society sees as abuse.......what they follow as "the teaching of the bible" was the only "law" that they would abide by.
But what about the childs rights?? I see many here defending the parents rights to believe and practice their faith but, what about their daughters right to live?