faith healing parents found guilty

[Autodidact]

An Oregon couple who practice faith healing testified they did everything they could for their 16-year-old son before he died, but a jury decided it was not enough, especially just months after the death of their granddaughter.

Jeff and Marci Beagley were convicted of criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday after prosecutors argued they failed in their duty to get medical help for their son, Neil, in June 2008.

Thoughts?

 

[dust1n]

An Oregon couple who practice faith healing testified they did everything they could for their 16-year-old son before he died, but a jury decided it was not enough, especially just months after the death of their granddaughter.

Jeff and Marci Beagley were convicted of criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday after prosecutors argued they failed in their duty to get medical help for their son, Neil, in June 2008.

Thoughts?

Imprisoned for not debting one's self endlessly by paying for unaffordable health insurance... owch. I would agree with this decision if all health care was free. I don't agree with it since health care is a commodity, and a unaffordable one at that. I convict the American government for criminally negligent homicide to all those who could not afford insurance.

 

[MSizer]

I wish for two possible futures for them. Either they denounce their superstitions and devote the next 20 years to spreading information to the public about the consequences of neglecting medicine in favour of superstition, or they rot behind bars.

 

[AxisMundi]

Imprisoned for not debting one's self endlessly by paying for unaffordable health insurance... owch. I would agree with this decision if all health care was free. I don't agree with it since health care is a commodity, and a unaffordable one at that. I convict the American government for criminally negligent homicide to all those who could not afford insurance.

So you lay a price upon the life of a son?

Ignoring for the moment the g'ment programs and charities that either help mitigate costs, or pick up the tab totally.

 

[AxisMundi]

An Oregon couple who practice faith healing testified they did everything they could for their 16-year-old son before he died, but a jury decided it was not enough, especially just months after the death of their granddaughter.

Jeff and Marci Beagley were convicted of criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday after prosecutors argued they failed in their duty to get medical help for their son, Neil, in June 2008.

Thoughts?

There is an inherent freedom of religion in this country.

However, religion is bound by US Laws.

These people are guilty as charged.

 

[tumbleweed41]

Imprisoned for not debting one's self endlessly by paying for unaffordable health insurance... owch. I would agree with this decision if all health care was free. I don't agree with it since health care is a commodity, and a unaffordable one at that. I convict the American government for criminally negligent homicide to all those who could not afford insurance.

"Sorry son, but I just do not want to get in over my head by taking you to the emergency room. We'll miss you....":areyoucra

 

[MSizer]

Did they try rubbing a mixture of marten musk and wild garlic on his testicles while doing the chicken dance and reciting the names of thier ancestors backwards?

If not, they have nobody to blame but themselves.

 

[dust1n]

"Sorry son, but I just do not want to get in over my head by taking you to the emergency room. We'll miss you....":areyoucra

Well, certainly some government program could have helped, but it shouldn't be an issue in the first place. It would have been terrible if conventional medicine didn't work and the kid still died, yet the family would still be stuck with the bills none the less. Indebting yourself to the health care system doesn't not necessarily mean it would have saved his child's life. Don't get me wrong, the parents sound like complete **********.

 

[sonofskeptish]

An Oregon couple who practice faith healing testified they did everything they could for their 16-year-old son before he died, but a jury decided it was not enough, especially just months after the death of their granddaughter.

Jeff and Marci Beagley were convicted of criminally negligent homicide on Tuesday after prosecutors argued they failed in their duty to get medical help for their son, Neil, in June 2008.

Thoughts?

Sick. When will we realize that the right of a child to be protected from their parent's religious practices, trumps any parent's right to practice that religion.

 

[DavyCrocket2003]

How do people justify this kind of thing? I don't how they can believe in a God that would expect people to do nothing and expect a miracle.

 

[9-10ths_Penguin]

Well, certainly some government program could have helped, but it shouldn't be an issue in the first place.

How would it have helped to have a government program that they almost certainly would not have used? The issue was the parents' beliefs. I see no reason to assume that money would've been an issue in all this at all.

How do people justify this kind of thing? I don't how they can believe in a God that would expect people to do nothing and expect a miracle.

Personally, I don't believe that there's an all-powerful and loving God looking out for us and I don't believe that we go somewhere really, really nice when we die, which is why I think the parents' actions are awful. However, if I did believe these things, I'm not sure why I would find the parents' position that unreasonable.

 

[dust1n]

How would it have helped to have a government program that they almost certainly would not have used? The issue was the parents' beliefs. I see no reason to assume that money would've been an issue in all this at all.

True. Then I change my opinion. If the parents were able to afford (by themselves or through help) for treatment, then sure, prosecute them.

But seeing how the kid was sixteen, I think it really depends on his feelings on the subject.

 

[sonofskeptish]

How do people justify this kind of thing? I don't how they can believe in a God that would expect people to do nothing and expect a miracle.

Blind faith.

 

[DavyCrocket2003]

However, if I did believe these things, I'm not sure why I would find the parents' position that unreasonable.

Wow. Could you explain this to me? Apparently I am missing something here.

 

[DallasApple]

Well at LEAST they didnt have an abortion!!

Love

Dallas

 

[Jeremiah]

Well at LEAST they didnt have an abortion!!

Love

Dallas

Are you serious?