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Parents charged in faithhealing face
Neal Beagley, 16, died in June of kidney and heart failure. He had a blockage in his urinary tract that doctors say could have been easily cured.
His parents, Jeffrey Dean Beagley and Marci Rue Beagley, pleaded not guilty last week to the criminal charge, ABC News reported Tuesday.
The parents belong to Followers of Christ Church, which believes in faith healing. Relatives told investigators for the Gladstone Police Department that the teenager also did not want medical treatment.
Another couple in the Beagley family also faces manslaughter charges. Neil Beagley's niece, Ava Worthington, died of an untreated ear infection in March at the age of 15 months, and her parents are awaiting trial.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International.
This news arrived on: 10/08/2008
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10-14-2008 17:27
Brian wrote:
doctors and faith
The problem with most doctors in today's world is that they are to quick to prescribe medicine. If the medicine works or not doesn't matter because the side effects are just as dangerous in most cases.
10-10-2008 09:11
BE CARFUL wrote:
BE CARFUL
BE CARFUL DOCTORS KILL BABYS EVERY DAY LETS JAIL THEM OBAMA WANTS TO KILL THEM ALSO LETS HEAR THAT IN THE NEWS.....
10-09-2008 05:28
mhz wrote:
I have faith in the medics being properly trained, and trust that God will guide their hands and their brains when I am being treated. All things come from God, therefore, there is no reason to reject conventional treatments. Children have a right to conventional treatment, that is known to work 99% of the time, God will take care of them.
10-09-2008 00:33
bobbyr54 wrote:
Doctors
I loved what all of you had to say here. Luke indeed was a physician, and was a follower of Christ and a writer of one of the four Gospels. Christ, nowhere in the Bible says there is anything wrong with going to a doctor, nor against accepting blood transfusion in saving lives of his people. The of not of consming blood
in itself, but in consuming flesh with its blood in it. And that was a law set down by God to the Jewish people before Christ came. The spilling of blood was for the atonement of sins in their sacrifices, but after Jesus came and was crucified, that part of the law was nulled by Christ spilling his blood for the atonement for our sins. Beside, transfusions do not constitute consuming blood, nor is transplants. Accepting care of a doctor is not denying faith in God, but the acceptance of faith. After all he gave us doctors in the first place.
in itself, but in consuming flesh with its blood in it. And that was a law set down by God to the Jewish people before Christ came. The spilling of blood was for the atonement of sins in their sacrifices, but after Jesus came and was crucified, that part of the law was nulled by Christ spilling his blood for the atonement for our sins. Beside, transfusions do not constitute consuming blood, nor is transplants. Accepting care of a doctor is not denying faith in God, but the acceptance of faith. After all he gave us doctors in the first place.
10-08-2008 20:53
bystander wrote:
God is not to be confined or predicted by our finite knowledge and faith. He will not become our errand boy. Man's religions fail in their attempt to reach and predict Him. I am familiar with several physicians who confess His Divine interventions. I have also witnessed with my own eyes a woman's broken collar bone slide back into place during an interventional prayer. She followed up with her physician to confirm both the break and the healing.
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