# Parents prayed over daughter instead of bringing her to a doctor. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 27, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864 "2008-03-27T01:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864/221 "2008-04-30T02:13:08Z")
Hey, folks. There was an update in the case yesterday. The Marathon County District Attorney has decided to charge Dale and Leilani Neumann with [second-degree reckless homicide](http://www.jsonline.com/watch/?watch=1&date=4/28/2008&id=38925). > [@](#): > > In a statement released at a 1 p.m. news conference, [Marathon County District Attorney Jill] Falstad said the parents’ actions meet the standard of the charges. > > “Second-degree reckless homicide has two elements,” Falstad said. "The first element is that the defendant caused the death of another. The second element is that the defendant caused the death by criminally reckless conduct. > > “In this case, that conduct was the failure to seek medical intervention. The failure to seek medical intervention created unreasonable and substantial risk of death or great bodily harm to Kara and the Neumanns were aware of the risk.” You can read the criminal complaint [here](http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/apr08/diabetes-case-042908.pdf) (warning: PDF!). It’s pretty horrifying, I find, as it shows that the Neumanns did realize something was very wrong, but still decided against medical care. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864/222 "2008-04-30T03:40:00Z")
I look forward to Madeline’s return to life and good health, as predicted by her parents. I always knew it would happen in Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864/223 "2008-04-30T03:51:26Z")
Well, it’s going to be pretty difficult now that she’s been buried. There’s a shortage of caves with boulders in front of them in this state. These stupid motherfuckers. The whole situation still makes me incandescently angry. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864/224 "2008-04-30T03:56:59Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Purl McKnittington] … The whole situation still makes me incandescently angry. [/QUOTE] Ooh, stand above the coffin and she will dig her way up to the light. Or, if she was hot and her picture got published, [these boys](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=387006&highlight=%27necrophilia%27) will come along to dig her up. Sorry, I have trouble not being a smart ass over such utter stupidity. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864/225 "2008-04-30T04:06:48Z")
AGH. Those boys are from around where I live. High school boys from Dodgeville have a reputation for legendary stupidity. Now, as for the stupidity, do you mean the necrophilia or the reckless homicide? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2008, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864/226 "2008-04-30T04:10:34Z")
Pick one. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/parents-prayed-over-daughter-instead-of-bringing-her-to-a-doctor/442864.md?page=11)