Best comment on this website: "The church should be tried as accomplices." "Another Set of Faith-Healing Parents Arrested After Allowing Their Daughter to Die of a Treatable Disease. In 2012, Greg and JaLea Swezey were sentenced to five years of probation after they allowed their 17 year-old son Zachery to die of appendicitis… even though it was completely preventable: The Swezeys were not practitioners of Christian Science, but they were members of the Church of the First Born, a church that also endorses “faith-healing.” Why see a doctor when God will cure all?! (Except when He doesn’t.) Now, it’s happened again — to another family from the same church. You would think church members would have learned their lesson by now. This same fate befell another family in 1996...In 1996, a Linn County jury convicted Church of the First Born member Loyd Hays of Brownsville on charges of criminally negligent homicide. His 7-year-old son was dying of a treatable form of leukemia, and Hays was trying to cure it through prayer. The Swezey’s, though, were let off the hook. And now the church’s beliefs have led to another death." [1] 1. patheos/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/08/30/another-set-of-faith-healing-parents-arrested-after-allowing-their-daughter-to-die-of-a-treatable-disease/
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