Parents pray for dying daughter rather than take her to a doctor and then she died (30/04/08)

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.

She had diabetes. As someone with a sister who has diabetes I know exactly how treatable it is and how horrific the consequences are if it’s not treated. This makes me sick to the pit of my stomach. Via Kottke.