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. Bryon,

    And you may agree with him. And I will not be offended. You have the right to your views and I have mine.

  2. MissMolly,

    Can you tell Bdaman to tell duh to tell Juan that it is to. I am feeling threatened.

  3. Anonymously Yours 1, February 5, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    bdaman,

    Will you go over to 30 and show him that in the post that he cut and pasted it said concede? Will, you tell duh to tell him what it means? ”

    Its not conceding if in next sentence you take it back.

  4. So did you clean your sidewalks so people walking to the superbowl could get there safely?

  5. Anonymousyly yours I read your comments and you are insane. You want to claim you can murder your kids by neglect for your stupid religion. Thirtypecenter told you right and you cant and now your just playuing games and ruing this blog. Go away AY and seek medical help.

  6. bdaman,

    Will you go over to 30 and show him that in the post that he cut and pasted it said concede? Will, you tell duh to tell him what it means? So this malarkey went on because he refused to read the post that he cut and pasted right here at this very instant. Lines on the mirror.

    You know he is selective in which laws he wants to follow. I bet he never thought about somebody falling and becoming an invalid because he did not shovel his walk as required as a public safety measure.

  7. So many trolls in here. ThirtyPercenter why do you talk to them? They only want to mess up this blog.

  8. So we see even at this late hour, AY is committed to personal attacks on me, and rewriting the debate to suit the picture he wants to paint.

  9. Now you did it, he is on the phone with the Cyber Crimes Division at this very instant. I am tired of you deleting some of my words and spelling the others incorrectly.

  10. Ay I keep getting punked. My windows keep rattaling and I think it’s thunder than I have to remind myself of the live fire exercises being carried out the next three days.

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