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the months ago we did a story about so-called faith healing that's going on
across the country
faith healing is
well you explain the faith healing is the list most simply
praying
that someone will get better
instead of bringing to a doctor right right instead of actual medical
treatment and typically it's not individuals that are ever deciding to do
this for themselves but it's what
parents deciding to pray
for the children instead of bringing them to hospital it that's right now the
story within a few months ago i remember if it was an oregon or not but i think
it may have been
it brings up an interesting question do parents have the right
to choose prayer over any kind of actual medical treatment for their children
that's a really hard question
i don't see why they can't do both
but i guess when it comes down to it
i think we should talk to bill newman about this for some yeah i mean i'll
tell you i think that if you are not going to you can pray all you want but
if you're keeping someone away for medical treatment that they would that
they would require i think it they're it could qualify as abuse and it seems like
oregon is agreeing with me
yeah right it could also depend on i guess the severity of the baidoa mister
or whatever it is what yet another couple from the followers of christ
church in oregon city oregon stand accused of criminal mistreatment for
deliberately withholding medical care from their child
timothy and rebecca weiland of beavercreek
believe in treating sickness with prayer
rather than medicine even when prayer doesn't work
extra price
their infant daughter elena has a serious side problem which they chose
not to treat
i want to aryans to go online and to look this up
you will not have trouble finding it if you just put in followers of christ
while n_w_ why l_a_ andy
if you see the girl lewis it looks like she has one i've because she has a
deformity that is grown above ur over her left eye
that is about the size of the baseball
and we'll get to what the condition is they have chosen not to treat her now
someone notified the authorities fortunately in the state is intervened
and the while ans have lost custody of their daughter altogether
again only the pictures will do this story justice so go online will even try
to link to it we willing to it for me to be politics dot com so you can check it
out and you can take a look at the picture
the photographs have been obtained from the clackamas county sheriff's office
show elena as a sweetly chubby baby
with what is being described as a grotesque protrusion on her face
distorting her eyes
if the masses purplish red experts very painful looking they're calling it a
tennis ball here
list about the same size of baseball
in the grocery store
you could see it from across the store labor it that way
a reasonable person would not keep this child from a doctor a reasonable person
would be breaking doors down to get to a doctor at the first sign of its they
would not be keeping the child home and praying
for the tennis ball sized growth to go away is that fair to say
yes
medical experts call the problem
i he mention your home
i hope i'm pronouncing that right it's a fast growing massive blood vessels
normally
again this is what you brought up lewis is this something that you could just
read easily normally the condition could be diagnosed and usually treated
at the first signs of slowing or discoloration left untreated
the masses pushed a lien is i'd ellen and out
placing pressure on her eyeball and her eye socket it's actually not clear
whether she'll go blind she may go blind altogether because of the the fact that
treatment has been delayed the only thing that's for certain here lewis
is that the while installing as parents deliberately withheld medical care
and they admitted in court to doing so because they believe in prayer for
healing
not medicine
well i'm glad you i'm glad they lost custody
mold with it's act actually kind of an aud story because over the past three
decades there's been more than twenty oregon children whose parents be long
for this exact same church called followers of christ
who have died
of treatable illnesses according to the state medical examiner's office
and oregon actually grant special leniency to bs faith healers i don't
understand exactly why but they're singled out favorably in state policy
and and they're protected from being charged with certain crimes there was
some kind of a compromise in nineteen ninety nine with the oregon legislature
stripped some of those legal protections but lighter sentences uh... are still
given to these faith healers
someone is speaking out and saying that the parent did nothing wrong and bcm ngo
ms resolve on their own in many cases but age nine
the fact is state social workers team the condition of the child to be in
danger
and i think absolutely it was correct that this is abuse
and the child needed to be taken into state custody for sure
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