Jurors sent a clear signal Tuesday (Feb. 2) that parents who rely solely on faith healing to treat their children face prison if a child dies.
Jeffrey and Marci Beagley were found guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of their 16-year-old son, Neil, who died in June 2008 of complications from an undiagnosed congenital urinary blockage.
His parents attempted to heal him with prayer, anointing with oil and laying on of hands.
They are the first members of Oregon City’s Followers of Christ church to be convicted of homicide in the congregation’s long history of children dying from treatable medical conditions.
via Religion News: Ore. parents guilty in son’s faith-healing death.
