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Title: Couples faith in "jesus" gets them nothing but 2 dead kids and a murder charge(my title)
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URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dead-pa-babys ... -divine-healing-025704613.html
Published: May 25, 2013
Author: j
Post Date: 2013-05-25 07:58:50 by PSUSA2
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — After their 2-year-old son died of untreated pneumonia in 2009, faith-healing advocates Herbert and Catherine Schaible promised a judge they would not let another sick child go without medical care.

But now they've lost an 8-month-old to what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances. And instead of another involuntary manslaughter charge, they're now charged with third-degree murder.

"We believe in divine healing, that Jesus shed blood for our healing and that he died on the cross to break the devil's power," Herbert Schaible, 44, told Philadelphia homicide detectives after their ninth child, Brandon, died in April. Medicine, he said, "is against our religious beliefs."

The Schaibles were ordered held without bail Friday, two days after their arrest, although defense lawyers argued that they are neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community.

"He is incarcerated because of his faith," said lawyer Bobby Hoof, who described client Herbert Schaible's mindset as resolute.

"He's strong willed," Hoof said. "(Yet) he's mourning this son. He's hurting as any dad would."

The only people theoretically at risk are the couple's seven surviving children, who are now in foster care, the lawyers said.

A judge acknowledged that the couple had never missed a court date in the first case but said he worried that might change amid the more serious charges. And he feared they may have supporters who would harbor them.

"Throughout this country ... there are churches like the Schaibles' whose members and leaders probably don't think they did anything wrong and might be willing — to paraphrase the Schaibles' pastor — to put their interpretation of God's will above the law," Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner said.

About a dozen children die each year in the U.S. when parents turn to faith healing instead of medicine, typically from highly treatable problems, said Shawn Francis Peters, a University of Wisconsin lecturer who has studied faith-healing deaths.

In Oregon, four couples from a faith-healing church have been prosecuted, the most recent in 2011 when a couple was sentenced to more than six years in prison for manslaughter in the death of their newborn son.

The state legislature that year removed faith healing as a defense to murder charges. Members of the Followers of Christ have consistently refused to speak with journalists.

Defense lawyer Mark Cogan declined to comment Friday on whether the legal actions have changed the practice of any church members. Some testified at the 2011 trial that they do get medical care.

At the Schaibles' sentencing in February 2011 in their son Kent's death, they agreed to follow terms of the 10-year probation, which included an order to get their children regular checkups and sick visits as needed. Catherine Schaible, 43, let her husband speak for her and never addressed the judge.

"It's very clear that the law says that religious freedom is trumped by the safety of a child," Common Pleas Judge Carolyn Engel Temin explained.

But a transcript of a later probation hearing that year shows probation officers were confused by their mandate to oversee the required medical care and felt powerless to carry it out. The family was not being monitored by child-welfare workers, who are more accustomed to dealing with medical compliance.

"I think that we all on the jury thought that it would not happen again, that whatever social and legal institutions needed to be involved in their situation would just take over ... and that the mandated visits would be robust enough that they would not be able to do this again," Vincent Bertolini, a former college professor who served as jury foreman at the Schaibles' first trial, said Friday.

That jury convicted the couple of involuntary manslaughter and child endangerment.

Like other cases Peters has studied, the Schaibles belong to a small, insular circle of believers. Both are third-generation members and former teachers at their fundamentalist Christian church, the First Century Gospel Church in northeast Philadelphia.

Their pastor, Nelson Clark, has said the Schaibles lost their sons because of a "spiritual lack" in their lives and insisted they would not seek medical care even if another child appeared near death. He did not return phone messages this month, but he told The Associated Press in 2011 that his church is not a cult, and he faulted officials for trying to force his members into "the flawed medical system," which he blamed for 100,000 deaths a year.

"These are people who have been brought up in these communities; their beliefs are reinforced every day," Peters said. "They're not trained intellectually to question these doctrines, where the rest of us might engage in critical inquiry, weighing the benefits of medicine versus the benefits of prayer."

A handful of families, including one in western Pennsylvania, have lost two children after attempts at faith healing, according to Peters, who wrote "When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children and the Law."

Peters isn't sure that courts have the means to prevent the problem, since such people don't fear legal punishment, only Judgment Day. Some believe death "is a good outcome," given their belief in the afterlife, he said.

"They don't want to harm their children. They're just in this particularly narrow — and very, very dangerous — way misguided about the potential of medical science," he said.

He believes that "empathetic" intervention, through dialogue between church and public health educators, could help some "get to a point where they allow their beliefs and practices to evolve."

But there's a risk that could backfire, and drive these communities further underground, he said.

For the Schaibles, a third-degree murder conviction could bring seven to 14 years in prison or more.

Said Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore: "Somebody is dead now as a result of what they did — or didn't do."

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#3. To: PSUSA2 (#0)

These faith healing deaths are very troublesome legally. American law is "sort of" clear - parents are supposed to go for medical help for their kids even when their religious beliefs wouldn't let them get help for themselves. But there are also gut issues that a jury considers despite the judge's articulation of the law.

Shoonra  posted on  2013-05-25   11:06:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Shoonra (#3)

But there are also gut issues that a jury considers despite the judge's articulation of the law.

To me, the "gut issues" are 2 dead kids that in all probability died needlessly.

I don't know what the legal matters are. I might be an asshole, but at least I'm not a lawyer or a legislator.

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-05-25   11:25:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: PSUSA2 (#6)

To me, the "gut issues" are 2 dead kids that in all probability died needlessly.

You're starting to sound like Obama, ban everything if it saves the life of just one child.

Dakmar  posted on  2013-05-25   11:31:54 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Dakmar (#8)

You're starting to sound like Obama, ban everything if it saves the life of just one child.

Where did I advocate banning anything? Other than maybe banning letting kids die because "going to jesus" is not anywhere as effective as "going to the doctor".

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-05-25   11:34:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: PSUSA2 (#10)

Where did I advocate banning anything? Other than maybe banning letting kids die because "going to jesus" is not anywhere as effective as "going to the doctor".

It's sad that these infants died, but keep in mind that the medical profession kills 100,000 or so in this country every year. I can't justify letting these children die, neither can I justify coercing the parents to relinquish their beliefs. In the long run, I think it best to let people live by their conscience.

Dakmar  posted on  2013-05-25   11:50:00 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Dakmar, PSUSA2 (#11)

I think it best to let people live by their conscience.

Yes, it's best to err on the side of liberty. .gov has no business being involved in child-rearing.

Esso  posted on  2013-05-25   11:55:51 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Esso, Dakmar (#12)

Yes, it's best to err on the side of liberty. .gov has no business being involved in child-rearing.

Do you store your kids in a closet? Rhetorical. I'm assuming you both have a conscience.

I think you may be assuming that everyone is as sane as you and would move heaven(!) and earth to help your kids. Not everyone is like that; these parents for example.

I wonder if these parents worshiped the Almighty God Of Lettuce what the results would be. They could pray to the Divine Head Of Lettuce for their kids divine healing. Would that be protected? That head of lettuce gave its life as a sacrificial offering so that we can eat salad in remembrance of Him, therefore healing is assured. Right?

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-05-25   12:11:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: PSUSA2 (#13)

I wonder if these parents worshiped the Almighty God Of Lettuce what the results would be. They could pray to the Divine Head Of Lettuce for their kids divine healing. Would that be protected? That head of lettuce gave its life as a sacrificial offering so that we can eat salad in remembrance of Him, therefore healing is assured. Right?

So you are ok with Sheila Jackson Lee telling you that you should be worshiping eggplants instead? :)

Seriously though, the problem I have is where does it end? Were you ok with Rick Perry when he floated a law requiring all 14 year old girls to get a Gardasil injection?

Dakmar  posted on  2013-05-25   12:18:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#23. To: Dakmar (#14)

Seriously though, the problem I have is where does it end?

Good question. I dont know the answer.

Power is accumulated and never willingly given up. Laws seem to start out with good intentions (usually) and end up with what we have now, an emerging police state.

I see protecting citizens as a legitimate function of government. But we all have differing ideas on what that entails. So there is conflict there.

Then the psychopaths, the ones that always seem to make it to the top, use this open ended idea of protecting citizens to accumulate more power for themselves, at citizens expense.

So that is 2 ways things get screwed up.

Then there are the fucked up people like this couple. People can't be forced to come to their senses, even though I admit at times I'd sure like to try and force them to do that very thing. And I wouldn't be gentle.

The only solution I see is rebooting. The culture is one big BSOD.

PSUSA2  posted on  2013-05-25   12:39:50 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#27. To: PSUSA2 (#23)

I see protecting citizens as a legitimate function of government.

Protecting the rights of citizens is the only legitimate function of government.

Protecting citizens is too vague, protecting us from what?

It becomes politicized quickly. Rights can be defined and agreed upon.

Dakmar  posted on  2013-05-25 13:07:29 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#63. To: PSUSA2 (#23)

I see protecting citizens as a legitimate function of government

You must be thrilled with this then.

Ohio bans those dangerous dens of iniquity, Internet cafes

Bill D Berger  posted on  2013-05-25 14:44:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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