Faith-Healing Parents in Oregon Convicted of Negligent Homicide

A church in Oregon has the infamous reputation of killing children in the name of faith. Now, two parents — Jeff and Marci Beagley — have been found guilty of negligent homicide. Their case was discussed in this prior column. It is a welcomed charge (often religious parents are given lesser charges in the death of their children due to faith-healing), but the likely sentence is likely to be relatively low given the history of this church and the loss of life.


They will face only 16-18 months in the death of their sixteen-year-old Neil who died from a urinary tract blockage that could have been easily addressed by doctors. I have argued that faith-healing parents are being given special and lenient treatment over other neglectful parents, here.

The Followers of Christ church rejects conventional medicine in favor of faith-healing.

For the full story, click here and here and here.

537 thoughts on “Faith-Healing Parents in Oregon Convicted of Negligent Homicide”

  1. I am not a troll thank you. I read the comments and that is my take on it. I am sorry if that does not agree with you.

  2. Bdaman, Duh, Mika, and all of you other doubting trolls, troll time is over. Go home.

  3. Ok, ECookie, Are you B1 or B2. I don’t want to get confused again….

  4. I guess you are serving your alma mater well 30%er. You having been doing the troll thing since you first responded.

  5. Now ECookie,

    I am angry now. I am amusing. I did not get up this morning to amuse. I got up Just to annoy.

    Should be change our screen names to B1 and B2? You know the Bananas in Pajamas?

  6. Doesn’t mean a thing. Just more trash talk from a guy claiming to be a lawyer, who cannot defend his positions in a debate.

  7. One of the most tired of troll tactics, is when they get their a$$ handed to them in a debate on the issues, to turn to personal insults.

    Then, when the person they are insulting returns the favor, they simply go for the “angry” label.

    Right wing does it all the time.

  8. “ECookie,

    I am sorry, he took his anger at me out on you. I live to annoy and Buddha lives to be of service.

    Excuse me, I get up in the morning’s just to annoy. Thats it.” The Troll

    Oh don’t excuse my calling you two douchebags by your proper names as anger.

    Over the past day and a half, you and your sock puppet non de plumes here have proven that you are just one or two lying trolls.

    Calling them as I see them does not equal anger.

    No matter how desperately you’d like to paint me as thus.

    You clowns do little more than amuse. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t waste my time on you.

  9. “You’re admitting to being a sockpuppet?”

    Yes, that was me on the left.

  10. 30%er,

    Is that all of the brain that you have left after the accident? If not, when was the stroke? Do we need to call someone to come over and make sure you are ok and are not frothing?

  11. “Man, why do you have to attack anyone that disagrees with you. “Anonymously Yours – empirecookie

    If you think you’re fooling someone, you’re not.

    He didn’t “disagree” with me so once again you’ve been caught lying.

    He pretended I had attacked him.

    Yet I hadn’t made any comments to him.

    So once more, thanks for showing what a lying dirtbag, you really are.

  12. Speaking of asses:

    [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4XfANpzBVw&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

  13. ECookie,

    I am sorry, he took his anger at me out on you. I live to annoy and Buddha lives to be of service.

    Excuse me, I get up in the morning’s just to annoy. Thats it.

  14. “No, but I was the sock puppet associate you referred to” empirecookie 1, February 4, 2010 at 8:18 pm

    🙂

    So let me get this straight.

    You’re admitting to being a sockpuppet?

  15. 30%er,

    Man, why do you have to attack anyone that disagrees with you. I said you were right at this time. You don’t socialize much do you? Apparently I don’t either. I am here arguing with an idiot and I am trying to figure out which one.

    Did you need some of that MagiCactus? I hear it Good shit man. But if you want some really good shit man go back to the saturdays’ thread.

  16. No, but I was the sock puppet associate you referred to, and I took umbrage at that and your increasingly hysterical and aggressive posts towards everyone else. So blow it out your own a$$, big man.

  17. “You seem to have serious anger management issues. Also, calling me an idiot and stupid and an asshole and an ignorant asshole is really very Christian of you. I guess you’ve never heard of turning the other cheek.” -empirecookie

    Once more troll blow it out your a$$.

    My beliefs aren’t on trial here so don’t even start.

    You came in lying, deceptively addressing me as if I had attacked you.

    You did this so you could paint me as angry.

    Its the oldest trick in the book. Kick a dog, then when it bites back, label it mad.

    When you can man up to your coming in a few minutes ago and pretending I had just attacked you when in fact I hadn’t even uttered a word in your direction, you let me know.

    Until then you can ki$$ my rosy red a$$.

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