The game is over and the sentence passed out. The Beagleys get 16 months sentence each in their son's prayer-death.
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The judge said:
""There needs to be respect for religious freedom, accompanied by personal accountability and responsibility," Campbell said.
Maurer said the Beagleys and the congregation knew about medical care but refused it.
"These two cases illustrate a crime that was a product of an unwillingness to respect the boundaries on freedom of religious expression," Maurer said. "They've continued to use spiritual treatment practices in exclusion of medical treatment, even when their children were in extreme harm's way."
It would appear that the courts are no longer turning a blind eye to the needless and cruel prayer deaths, when parents foolishly neglect to get their children needed medical treatment in the face of their child's imminent death. If a team of elders, and the parents and 200 church members can't move the hand of God to obtain a healing for a boy on the brink of death, something is wrong with this picture, and I don't think it's God.
