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Praying Dad Guilty in Sick Daughter's Death

By Neal Colgrass,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 1, 2009 3:52 PM CDT
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(Newser) – A Wisconsin jury has convicted a man of reckless homicide for praying instead of taking his ill daughter to the doctor, the Wausau Daily Herald reports. Dale R. Neumann, 47, faces up to 25 years in prison in the 2008 death of his 11-year-old daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann, who suffered from undiagnosed diabetes. Neumann testified that he believed God would heal her, the AP reports.

"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," Neumann said at the trial. Prosecutors said Madeline needed urgent medical care because she couldn't eat, speak, talk, or walk; doctors testified that Neumann, a born-again Christian, could have saved her with fluids and insulin. A jury convicted his wife, Leilani Neumann, 41, on the same charge in May.

Dale Neumann smiles at his defense attorney Jay Kronenwetter during his trial in Wausau, Wis. on Tuesday, July 28, 2009.
Dale Neumann smiles at his defense attorney Jay Kronenwetter during his trial in Wausau, Wis. on Tuesday, July 28, 2009.   (AP Photo/The Daily Herald, Corey Schjoth)
Madeline Kara Neumann, of Weston, Wis., is shown working on chalk art last summer during downtown Wausau's Chalk Fest.
Madeline Kara Neumann, of Weston, Wis., is shown working on chalk art last summer during downtown Wausau's Chalk Fest.   (AP Photo/Wausau Daily Herald,Butch McCartney)
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newsrmandan
Aug 3, 2009 6:11 AM CDT
Ok so he refers to the guy this article is about and he is a pos,( his term) but that he intends that for all bible believers is quite clear. What could account for the length of time this "abhorrent falshood" has been allowed to exist? Ignorance and bigotry is a false argument because it can also be applied against him. Could it not be that he is just ignorant and bigoted against Christianity? Kokauguy Christians are never against science we are against science misused. Fundies as they are known can not be blamed for everything ( they are rightly blamed for some missunderstanding of scriptures) but to put up a straw man like you just did is simply (like Aelius28) ridiculous.
DontLikeYou___
Aug 3, 2009 3:41 AM CDT
In the US, someone must pay with jail time for every death, even if there is no malice intended. We have more people imprisoned in this country per capita than any other nation in the world. America has become what our forefathers fought against--- oppression.
kokuaguy
Aug 2, 2009 12:46 PM CDT
No, Dan, he referred to this pathetic, disgusting, excuse for a human being as a POS. Look at his photograph. What on earth could he find humorous in such a situation? What Aelius28 is outraged about is the fact that fundamentalist beliefs are used to prevent the teaching of science in schools, to deny women the right to control their own bodies, and to support Israel's apartheid like policies in the Middle East bringing civilization that much closer to a nuclear holocaust. Along with a long list of other outrages and injustices, including homophobia.

 
Wisconsin • death • Christians • prayer • Dale R. Neumann

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