Parents charged in diabetes death
From Times Wire Reports
Parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died March 23 of untreated diabetes were charged with second- degree reckless homicide.
Family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann of Weston to get help for their daughter, Madeline, 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. Each faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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