Prayer parents to be sentenced Tuesday
WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Central Wisconsin parents convicted of reckless homicide for praying for their dying daughter to heal instead of rushing her to a doctor return to court Tuesday for sentencing.
Dale and Leilani Neumann were convicted of second-degree reckless homicide in the Easter 2008 death of their 11-year-old daughter, Madeline, from undiagnosed diabetes. The family believes all healing comes from God.
Marathon County Circuit Judge Vincent Howard could sentence each to up to 25 years in prison. Testimony indicated the parents mostly prayed for the girl as her health steadily declined to the point she could no longer walk, talk, eat or drink.
The case is believed to be the first of its kind in Wisconsin involving faith healing in which someone died and another person was charged with a homicide.
Oct 5, 2009 at 10:46 p.m.
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Realsw... "Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas."
That is from the JDRF website.
Oct 5, 2009 at 12:49 p.m.
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Type 1 diabetes can be heredity-just to clarify on iowagirls post.
Oct 5, 2009 at 9:05 a.m.
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Are you kidding me ImJustSayin? This girl had Type 1 Juvenile diabetes which is absolutely not hereditary. You might want to check your facts before posting ignorant comments. The medical community is so close to coming up with a cure which my son will see in his lifetime. My 5 year old son was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes at the age of 2 1/2, are you seriously suggesting I shouldn't have sought medical treatment and let him die?
Oct 5, 2009 at 8:09 a.m.
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This is what happens when you teach people that magic is real when they are kids. They grow up gullible and superstitious and watch theri kids wrything in pain until death when a two dollar shot would have saved her.
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Or they believe an authority figure when they say strap this on and blow up that crowd - virgins are waiting.
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Or when they are told that four cells has a soul so be against stem cell research which could have eliminated this girl's condition from the face of the planet.
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And people have the gall to say religion is a good thing, amazing.
Oct 5, 2009 at 7:57 a.m.
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Any sentence will be too much.
Oct 4, 2009 at 9:33 p.m.
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You are a heartless soul "imjustsayin". There is NO EXCUSE as a parent to not go to all extremes to help their child when they are unable to help themselves, like being young. Insulin would not increase people becoming diabetic, your are a ignorant moronic person for saying that. Maybe the fact that the obesity rate is sky high in the US is the contributing factor to diabetes growing...DUH! The pure ignorant and unintelligent comment you made truly displays a bigger problem we have in this world than health care, and that is having non-compassionate, unsympathetic jerks like you.
Oct 4, 2009 at 7:59 p.m.
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Ever since insulin became available, diabetes has become a big problem since people are now living long enough to have children and pass the disease on. In a very real way this couple helped the human genome, and saved society huge medical bills in the future. I'm just sayin'...
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