From NBC News
A
deeply religious Wisconsin couple who prayed over their dying daughter
rather than seek medical help were properly convicted of homicide, the
state Supreme Court decided Wednesday.
Kara Neumann, 11, of Weston, Wis., died March 23, 2008 - Easter Sunday - of complications of untreated juvenile onset diabetes.
According to the case records, Kara had been showing symptoms of
exhaustion and dehydration for more than a week, but her parents, Dale
and Leilani Neumann, refused to take her to a pediatrician, and decided
to respond to her illness with prayer, not medicine.
A pediatrician testified that Kara's disease was highly treatable
and that her chances of survival were high until "well into the day of
her death."
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