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Charges unlikely in faith-healing death
Neil Jeffrey Beagley of Oregon City was 16 and thus, under Oregon law, old enough to make his own medical decisions, The Portland Oregonian reported. He died Tuesday at his grandmother's house.
Beagley's niece died four months ago while undergoing a faith-healing ritual with members of the Followers of Christ Church. Because she was a baby, her parents have been charged with manslaughter.
Dr. Cliff Nelson, a deputy state medical examiner, said Wednesday that Beagley's condition could have been treated. He had a constriction where his bladder connected to the urethra and had been unable to urinate for about a week.
While the constriction could have been easily relieved with a catheter, Nelson said that the boy had suffered similar problems for years and had permanent kidney damage as well that might have required dialysis or a kidney transplant.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
This news arrived on: 06/20/2008
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06-23-2008 01:45
James whitburn wrote:
death of boy involvong faith healing versus medical
While I to believe in healing from God, I also believe that medical doctorsa /nurses are sent from God to do his work here on earthtrusting in God and verifing via medical doctors is no sin or sign that you have faulty faith contrarary it is a blessed xchance to show the worls what god does thru those that are called byu him to heal people.
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