The father of a young girl who died in Wisconsin is on trial for second degree reckless homicide because he did not seek medical help. Instead, he and others prayed to God for her recovery.
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WAUSAU, Wisconsin - A father charged with killing his daughter by praying instead of taking her to a doctor read from the Bible while testifying Thursday that he couldn't seek medical help without disobeying God. Dale Neumann told the jury he didn't seek medical help for his child because "I can't do that because Biblically, I cannot find that is the way people are healed."
He added: "If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God. I am not believing what he said he would do."
Actually, it must have been the forgetten 11th Commandment- "THOU SHALL NOT SEEK MEDICAL TREATMENT".
Wilde, a loyal member of Neumann's Bible study group, testified for the defense as Neumann's attorney tried to show the father didn't know how ill his daughter was. Wilde said the five adults and three other children at the home prayed and took communion in an effort to heal the girl. She went home and took a nap, expecting the Neumanns to call later and say Madeline was fine and walking again.
The mother has already been convicted of second degree reckless homicide and will be sentenced in October. They were tried seperately so they could testify against one another.
Can you believe how the parents reacted to the illness of their daughter? For some reason, I don't think they had Health Insurance. I guess the parents never needed a doctor before. It is especially sad because the illness would probably have been diagnosed immediately.