WI News – 3/25/08

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.

Let’s all pray that these fanatical holy wackjobs don’t have any more children. They attributed the death to “apparently not having enough faith”? How about attributing it to being just being plain stupid. The common treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis has been around for a while – it is nothing new. Crawl out from under you holy shell and wake up! Live life in the real world. Not in some perceived world of false hope.