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911 call. Aunt knew child was very sick. Parents must have.
A couple of people have said that, if they parents didn’t know how sick Kara was, they aren’t really responsible. I believe that, by the time the Aunt was calling, the girl MUST have been very sick for days.

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Parents: Its OK, so long as you really believe
It’s important not to be moralistic or pass judgment on parents who think they can heal a child through prayer, said Dr. Norman Fost, professor of bioethics and pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison.
“They believe they’re helping their child; they love their child, [...]

Exactly why shouldn’t we condemn these people? Because of their faith? What if their faith said ‘Hold your daughter submerged in holy water until she is cured’? There is exactly no difference. Simply, we MUST judge their choice.
Don’t Condemn Those Who Do What They Believe God Wants Them To Do
The Rev. Ted Nelson, leader of [...]

The fact is that they did exactly what christians are supposed to do.  They put their faith in god, they beleived that everything will work out they way it is supposed to work out.  That is exactly the what christianity asks you to do.  Every christian who goes to the doctor is basically saying that [...]

They Shall Speak with New Tongues Something nutjob Neumann wrote on a site proclaiming that the end of days are upon us.  Their particular flavor of insanity found a home at Unleavened Bread Ministries. Here’s their section on medicine:
“Statistically, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.”
These monsters, with their delusions of holiness [...]

You think you become immune, after a while, to insanity, to death, to people blowing up.  I thought I had.  I guess that, in some ways, I can’t relate, can’t understand things like 9/11, Iraq, etc.
But this is almost bringing me to tears.  A little girl, Madeline Kara Neumann, is dead for no reason other than [...]