Parents Facing First-Degree Murder Charges After Trying to ‘Pray Away’ Child’s Type 1 Diabetes

[KamaAina]

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/parents-on-trial-for-first-degree-murder-after-trying-to-pray-away-childs-type-1-diabetes/

I’ll be honest, before today, I had actually never heard about the tragic story surrounding the death of 15-year-old Alex Radita.

In case you hadn’t heard about it, in 2013, Alex died weighing just 37 pounds after his parents refused to treat the Type 1 diabetes he was diagnosed with when he was three. Instead they chose to try to “pray away” the child’s autoimmune disease. Not only that, but the boy’s parents actually accused doctors of giving the child diabetes after giving him insulin injections during a hospital visit....

This is unconscionable to even begin to try to understand. This poor child suffered and died at 15-years-old weighing 37 pounds (or around the average weight of a 4-year-old) because his parents refused to get him the medical treatment he needed which would have helped him lead a mostly normal life....

I can’t even fathom how mentally deranged two parents would have to be to sit there, for years, watching their child suffer and eventually die because they believed that it was the doctors who made him sick and that they could “pray away” his disease.

[whatthehey]

1. Good. In the US they wouldn't even be questioned in most states.

Christians can commit infanticide with impunity here, but I hope Canada is more enlightened.

[IDemo]

4. Map: Religious exemptions to medical care of sick children:

[pandr32]

2. Heartbreaking, cruel, superstitious batsh*t crazy

...and cost a child their life...needlessly.

[edhopper]

3. Are these the kinds of beliefs

we are expected to respect around here?

[raccoon]

5. Wesley Parker's parents allowed him to die from type 1 diabetes in 1973. "Promised a Miracle," a TV

movie, was based on the true story.

How Could Parents Let a Child Die? Tv's Promised a Miracle Explores a Tragic Case of Misguided Faith

By Jack Kelley

Of all the things that can be said about Wesley Parker's death at age 11, the saddest is this: His parents let it happen. Burning with religious fervor, Larry and Lucky Parker watched the eldest of their four children succumb to diabetic shock while they clutched Bibles and withheld insulin. That 1973 tragedy is the subject of Promised a Miracle, a CBS TV movie airing May 19, starring Rosanna Arquette and Judge Reinhold as the Parkers.
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http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20098967,00.html