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Police: Girl Dies After Parents Pray for Healing Instead of Seeking Medical Help

WESTON, Wis. — An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday.

Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday.

"She got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.

Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from diabetic ketoacidosis, an ailment that left her with too little insulin in her body, and she had probably been ill for about 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

The girl's parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, attributed the death to "apparently they didn't have enough faith," the police chief said.

They believed the key to healing "was it was better to keep praying. Call more people to help pray," he said.

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My comment:

I guess they forgot to beat the drums and wave the feathers in the smoke? Did they forget to slit the throat of a chicken? Or sacrifice a cow? Maybe they neglected to blow the trumpets seven tines ... or was it nine times?

There are so many faith based initiatives they could have undertaken for their little girl. One of those could have been to have a little faith in science ... something that actually does produce miracles ... demonstrable miracles ... regularly ... based on the evidence provided by laws of nature. But they wouldn't be satisfied with that. They needed the laws of nature to be suspended for them and their little girl.