25 years' jail faces pray dad.A RELIGIOUS nut who prayed over his seriously ill daughter instead of taking her to hospital faces 25 years in prison over her death. Eleven-year-old Madeline Neumann collapsed with undiagnosed diabetes and died on the floor of the family's rural home near the US town of Wausau, Wisconsin
Wausau is the county seat of Marathon County, Wisconsin. The city is located at 44°57'N 89°38'W with an altitude of 364.2 meters (1,195 feet). , as a group of people begged God to heal her. An ambulance was only called when she stopped breathing. Dad Dale Neumann, 47 - who once trained to be a minister - was found guilty of seconddegree reckless reckless adj. in both negligence and criminal cases, careless to the point of being heedless of the consequences ("grossly" negligent). Most commonly this refers to the traffic misdemeanor "reckless driving. homicide homicide (hŏm`əsīd), in law, the taking of human life. Homicides that are neither justifiable nor excusable are considered crimes. A criminal homicide committed with malice is known as murder, otherwise it is called manslaughter. . He told a jury he believed God would cure his daughter - who could not eat drink, walk or talk - because it said so in the Bible. He told a jury: "If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God. "I am not believing what he said he would do." Mother Leilani Neumann, 41, was convicted of the same charge earlier this year. |
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