Three-year old shoots and kills infant brother

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23. I appreciate that.

My views were heavily influenced by the case of Herbert and Catherine Schaible. One of their children died from a treatable medical condition. They refused to seek treatment on religious grounds, and were given probation. Indeed, parents in cases like this are usually given light punishment. The prosecutor in this case wasn't happy, but the judge presumed the loss of a child was bad enough to justify the light sentence. But the parents didn't get the message - they lost a second child four years later, again from a treatable condition that went untreated because of the parents' religious views.

Parents who leave loaded guns with a chambered round unattended may also think they taught their small children to treat guns with respect, and they do have a constitutional right to own a gun, but somehow, parents never seem to learn from what happens to other families.