One can argue with some justification the dangers of a slippery slope here — legal and court mandates regarding parenting and faith are subject to social and cultural and personal foibles as anything can be, and the more paranoid can draw a dotted line from court mandates to seek medical care to court mandates to implant mind control chips in the back of each kid's skull. It's way too easy for courts and lawmakers to intrude on parenting decisions in the care and upbringing of kids, even out of the best of intentions (consider the BIA-sponsored Indian boarding schools as an historical example).
But, honestly speaking, and risks of going overboard notwitstanding, these individuals ought to have had their surviving children removed from their care after the first case of a child dying because they figured prayer would make the kid all better.
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Faith healing idiots who let son die are headed to prison. http://stupidevilbastard.com/2014/02/faith-healing-idiots-who-let-son-die-are-headed-to-prison/
Faith healing idiots who let son die are headed to prison. | Stupid Evil Bastard
SAYING THAT IT was they who killed their son and not God or religious devotion, a judge yesterday sentenced a Rhawnhurst couple to 3 1/2 to 7 years in state prison for praying for their pneumonia-stricken baby instead of following a court order to take him to a doctor.