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> Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid
>
> By Tom Leonard in New York
> Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 28/03/2008
>
> An 11-year-old girl died from diabetes after her parents prayed for her
> recovery rather than calling for medical assistance.
>
> Dale and Leilani Neumann say they are not 'crazy religious people'.
> But after Madeline died, they prayed that she might be resurrected
>
>
> Madeline Neumann died on Sunday in Wisconsin, from an undiagnosed but
> treatable ailment.
> Dan Vergin, the local police chief, said she had been ill for a month,
> suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of
> appetite and weakness.
> "She just got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.
> Even after her death, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, who did not
> belong to any organised faith, prayed over her body in the hope that she
> might be resurrected.
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> Mr Vergin said the couple, who run a coffee shop in Wausau, had blamed her
> death on their lack of faith.
> "They have a little Bible study of a few people," said Mr Vergin. "These
> are not bizarre people."
> Police are now preparing a report for prosecutors. However, legal action
> against the parents may be prevented by a Wisconsin state statute against
> failing to act to protect children from bodily harm.
> The statute contains an exemption for what it refers to as "treatment
> through prayer". Mrs Neumann, whose husband is a former policeman, said
> they had never expected her daughter to die. She suffered from diabetic
> ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin.
> She said her family believed in the Bible and that healing came from God.
> But she insisted that they were not "crazy religious people" and had
> nothing against doctors.
> She said their daughter had been tired over the past two weeks but the day
> before she died, her bad health "went into a more serious situation". She
> explained: "We stayed fast in prayer. We believed that she would recover.
> We saw signs that - to us - it looked like she was recovering."
> Mr Neumann said he started trying artificial resuscitation "as soon as the
> breath of life left" his daughter's body.
> However, Madeline's aunt said she pleaded with the dead girl's parents to
> take her to a doctor in the last few days of her life. As Madeline went
> into a coma, Ariel Gomez telephoned the emergency services from her home
> in California. But they were too late to save her.
> She told the ambulance control room that Mrs Neumann had "explained to us
> that she believes her daughter's in a coma now and she's relying on
> faith".
> The parents, who have three older children, told police that Madeline last
> saw a doctor when she was three to get some injections. The state law that
> allows healing through prayer became an issue in 2003 when a two-year-old
> autistic child in Milwaukee was crushed to death during an attempted
> exorcism.
> The "exorcist" was convicted on a far lesser charge than many people
> believed was appropriate.
> The local district attorney urged legislators to remove the exemption but
> they failed to act on his advice.
>
The Chief Instigator
Since she was Type I diabetic, she inherited the defective gene from at
least one of her parents...and I hope if either of them wind up with it,
they can pray their tiny minds out and the surviving spouse gets a lesson
in reality.
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Patrick "The Chief Instigator" Humphrey (pat...@io.com) Houston, Texas
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