I can’t begin to tell you how much this bit terrifies me:
“The judge also realizes that jail time will not reform us, because he has witnessed our faith runs very deep,” the statement reads.
Translation: we did nothing wrong.
Extrapolation: therefor, we’ll do it again if similar situations arise.
Further: Yes, we are OK with killing children in [...]
Honestly, I don’t know what to say about this.
6 months plus probation.
At what point do we simply say that child neglect is A-OK?
I mean, seriously, I’m not sure what the details are on this but they did remove the kids and none of them had died.
So, crazy nazi parents are NOT ok, but crazy [...]
Two families, one has killed their daughter, the other is doing their best to kill their son.
They are, without doubt, fanatics, but…
To the ‘moderates’ who talk about how the fanatics get it all wrong/disgrace your faith/or whatever, to all you people out there who go to church and believe in a god that mucks around [...]
Look, I can’t believe what hypocrites these people are, given that Ms. Neumann seemed to require medical attention during the first day, and didn’t demand that they leave her alone and just pray for her, but…
I continue to hope these people never see their children ever again since they are more than happy to murder [...]
From StreetProphets
I don’t know what I find the most tragic aspect of this case to be. That a child suffered and died a needless death. That the parents of the child had such a narrow and distorted faith that their actions led to that death. That those same parents now face charges and jail time [...]
They’ll almost certainly get away with it too. All the defense has to do is convince one person on the jury that if we require people to be responsible for their actions taken in the name of religion then religious freedom will vanish.
All that has to happen is for one person to realize that they [...]
Deep down inside, I know that Madeline’s death is our fault as a nation. We let them get away with it. We refuse to ever question anything about religious beliefs (unless you are a scientologist…).
And, because of that, people continue to act without rational justification and we continue to say its OK.
We continue to act [...]
Its OK, we killed our daughter because of our religion. Shouldn’t we get a free pass?
A day before Madeline died, according to the criminal complaint, the father wrote an e-mail with the headline, “Help our daughter needs emergency prayer!!!!.” It said his daughter was “very weak and pale at the moment with hardly any strength.”
Fuck [...]
Well, the other 3 kids have been removed from the Neumann home during the investigation. What keeps coming up is how there wasn’t any ‘intent’ on the parents part. They honestly thought they were doing the right thing.
Parents who physically abuse their children often say the same. ‘They had to learn a lesson’ or ‘my [...]
They called their church the night before
On the night before 11-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann died of complications from untreated diabetes, her parents did not call a doctor. Instead, Dale and Leilani Neumann prayed over the telephone Saturday with the founder of a religious Web site named americaslastdays.com
So lets make sure the record [...]