They don’t believe in doctors for their daughter, who died of an eminently treatable illness. But they don’t trust God for the outcome of their criminal case, obviously, because they’ve hired an attorney.

The Associated Press: Wis. parents who prayed as diabetic daughter died charged
Two parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes were charged Monday with second-degree reckless homicide.

Family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann to get help for their daughter, but the father considered the illness “a test of faith” and the mother never considered taking the girl to the doctor because she thought her daughter was under a “spiritual attack,” the criminal complaint said.

“It is very surprising, shocking that she wasn’t allowed medical intervention,” Marathon County District Attorney Jill Falstad said. “Her death could have been prevented.”

Madeline Neumann died March 23 — Easter Sunday — at her family’s rural Weston home. Her parents were told the body would be taken to Madison for an autopsy the next day.

“They responded, ‘You won’t need to do that. She will be alive by then,’” the medical examiner wrote in a report.

An autopsy determined that Madeline died from undiagnosed diabetic ketoacidosis, which left her with too little insulin in her body. Court records said she likely had some symptoms of the disease for months.

The Neumanns each face up to 25 years in prison if convicted. The couple and their attorney did not immediately return messages left Monday by The Associated Press.

This sort of thing makes me furious. I hope that attorney is preparing an insanity defense, because if they get someone like me on the jury, they’d be sitting in jail a loooong time. I want to be sympathetic, I really do. I pity them because every day now they have to live without their daughter, and I can’t bear to think of what that must be like – and more so when they could so easily have prevented it. But now all of a sudden they like living in the current century and they’ve got themselves a lawyer. So God can’t be trusted with their lives like He could with their daughter’s?

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