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.
The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected, the police chief said.
I am not much of a god fearing person as some of you would know me.
A large part of my upbringing involved attending church (I was educated in a missionary school), going/praying in temples (both my parents were rather staunch Buddhists), and being on the receiving end of countless stories supposedly religious in nature.
Over the years, it has become a bit of a struggle for me to attempt to reject ideas and concepts of which run counter to what I think.
Nevertheless, to borrow from somewhere; I guess faith is a gift, of which I am yet to receive.
I hope the death of Madeline did not happen in vain.
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