Daniel in The Lion's Den | 791: A 15-MONTH OLD GIRL DIED – Simply because Her Parents are Followers of Christ and Members of the Church of Christ…

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791: A 15-MONTH OLD GIRL DIED – Simply because Her Parents are Followers of Christ and Members of the Church of Christ…

02 July, 2009

A 15-MONTH OLD GIRL DIED – Simply because Her Parents are Followers of Christ and Members of the Church of Christ…

Gleaned from: Medical examiner: Oregon baby-girl appeared malnourished

Associated Press via KGW News-Channel 8 and Portland Wednesday 1^st July 2009

OREGON CITY: A deputy medical examiner testified that a 15-month-old girl, whose parents' are members of a church that shuns doctors and medical treatment in favour of faith-healing, appeared to be malnourished after her death from pneumonia.

Carl and Raylene Brent Worthington of Oregon City are members of the Followers of Christ’s Church; they have been accused of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment in the death last year of their child, Ava. They forgot to add criminal intent out of criminal neglect

The state medical examiner said she could easily have been saved with antibiotics – and food

It was the first case brought under Oregon's 1999 Law that rejects a religious defence for most abuse cases, and which was drafted mostly in response to groups such as Followers of Christ, Christian Scientists, Et Al…

The trial began two days ago, and the lawyers for her parents said the couple thought the girl was getting better as they, and other members of the church, had gone through faith-healing rituals – such as prayers and anointing her with oil. Half-Horse-shit and Half-Horse-fart!

The deputy medical examiner, Jeffrey Mayer, said he went into the girl's bedroom on the night she died and saw a humidifier and fan running; and a TV-tray containing red liquid he assumed was wine, and another bottle containing olive oil. He said both are commonly used as part of the faith-healing practices or rituals of the congregation.

Mayer said the girl appeared to be malnourished, with protruding ribs and a weight that was not consistent with peer weight – not consistent with a child of her age

Mayer also told of a cyst-like growth on the girl's neck, which prosecutors said was caused by her lymphatic system struggling against infection. He added that he had never seen anything like it in his experience, and described it as the size of a baseball. He testified that he dealt frequently with members of the church because attending physicians were never present when any of them died. It was up to his office to sign the death certificates.

He also said that when he arrived at the home, just east of Oregon City on 2^nd March 2008, about 100 people, whom he assumed to be church members, had gathered there. He played taped interviews he had with the parents, hours after their daughter had died. They told him the girl had never seen a doctor and had never been given over-the-counter medication.

Raylene said she had noticed the swelling on Ava's neck getting worse during her daughter's final days. She also said Ava had developed a cough and it worsened.

Photos taken by investigators in the parents' bedroom showed the girl's body, in pink pajamas and slippers, almost doll-like, lying crosswise on her parents' bed, where she normally slept. Ava weighed 10 pounds at birth. She weighed just 16 pounds when she died – 7 months later

Carl said his wife was with Ava when she died. Both said the cough was worse in her last days, especially when she was lying down, but she seemed healthy otherwise. Her mother described her as a good eater, which prompted prosecutors to ask about her emaciated condition.

Carl said that, on that Sunday night, church members had begun to gather at their home and they told him that she had stopped breathing, but said he didn't know who had told him. Horse-shit!

He said he ran to the bedroom but neither he nor anybody else gave her CPR or called 911. Asked why, he said that she was already dead, so he anointed her.

Dear readers and fellow-Apes…I ask you! And what can I say? Read:

537: Conventional and Nonconventional Treatments – Spiritual Healing, or Medical Science; Prayers by Pastors, or Prescriptions by Physicians…To Die for Others Beliefs – and to die very young, too!

It is the true story about poor Amy Hermanson, who suffered horribly and died at the tender age of seven – because her parents were Christian Scientists who believed…

536: In Ghana: Pregnant Women at prayer Camps instead of in Hospitals – In this day and age!? The 21^st Century! Read how illiteracy breeds ignorance, which breeds superstition…

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