For life, with all due respect... The Book of Luke and the Book of Acts, the Author whose name is Luke, Luke is/was a doctor. Yes, the mother who had faith in God to heal her... but she did not do works. In this very case according to this story... Faith
WITHOUT works is
Murder. It is sickening to avoid the ability to heal the daughter medically through what God has provided. That is medically neglecting / abusing the child.In fact, it is very possible that this is just testing God, which this is possibly be correct. The Bible clearly tells us we are not to test God. (Matthew 4:7, Luke 4:12)-------------------------------------This is a longer version of the story of the original post... and this one is written earlier like 4 days or so of the Original Post.-------------------------------------WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) -- A central Wisconsin mother accused of praying instead of seeking medical attention for her dying daughter suffered a brief medical emergency as her homicide trial started Saturday.Leilani Neumann, 41, was checked out by paramedics before she returned to the courtroom in a wheelchair about 30 minutes later.The drama provided a strange irony for the start of what's believed to the first case of its kind in Wisconsin involving faith healing, in which someone died and another person was charged with a homicide.Neumann received immediate medical attention after becoming visibly weak Saturday. Yet she is accused of not seeking medical attention for her 11-year-old daughter, Madeline, last year as the girl grew weak from undiagnosed diabetes. Madeline couldn't talk, couldn't walk, went into a coma and died in the family's rural Weston home on Easter 2008.Neumann and her husband have been charged with second-degree reckless homicide, which carries a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison.Prosecutors contend any reasonable parent would have known something was wrong. They say Neumann, who believes healing comes from God, recklessly killed her daughter by praying instead of rushing her to a doctor.The girl's father, Dale Neumann, 47, is scheduled to face trial starting July 23.About 20 minutes after Marathon County Assistant District Attorney LaMont Jacobson began his opening statement to the jury Saturday, describing the girl's condition the day before she died, the mother rested her head in her arms on the table.Moments later her attorneys expressed concern, asking for a recess so they could get her some air. She appeared faint and visibly weak as she was escorted to a downstairs office.Judge Vincent Howard ordered court security to call 911 and have Neumann medically evaluated after her attorney, Gene Linehan, said she was suffering a total physical and emotional breakdown."She claimed she has no feeling in her arms and legs," Linehan said, telling the judge Neumann could not participate in her defense in her current state.The judge agreed to a recess, saying Neumann "needs a medical evaluation, not a judicial one, at least at this stage."About 30 minutes later Neumann, the mother of three other children, returned to the courtroom."If things get a little stressful, I guess, take a big breath," the judge advised."I'll try," Neumann said.The trial continued with another hour of opening statements without further incident. The first witnesses will testify Monday.Jacobson told the jury the case wasn't about religious freedom or parental rights."This case is about the needless suffering and death of an 11-year-old child," he said.The girl, called Kara, by her parents, needed only some fluids and insulin to get better, Jacobson said.Instead, her mother let the emaciated girl sleep on a couch in a coma, watched her "wheezing and moaning," hand-fed her some broth, sent an e-mail saying "Help, our daughter needs emergency prayer" and refused advice from her mother-in-law to rush the girl to a doctor, he said.The girl showed early symptoms of diabetes by March 2008, Jacobson said. She was tired, weaker and "extremely thirsty," he said.By nightfall on the eve of her death, Madeline was "completely helpless" and the mother told a friend, "she sensed the spirit or Angel of Death present at her home," Jacobson said.Linehan told the jury that when the state charged Neumann with essentially murdering her daughter, it was "like driving a red-hot poker through her broken heart."People who saw the girl a day before she died could see "no indication of any illness whatsoever," certainly nothing as serious as deadly diabetes, the attorney said.The girl was naturally thin and the parents thought some of her symptoms in the days leading to her death were attributed to puberty, Linehan said."Leilani is going to take the stand. She is incredibly religious. She is not ashamed of it," he said. "She will tell you that she honestly believes that she was doing the right thing for her daughter."Praying was a way of life in the Neumann family, to the point that they conducted Bible studies is their now-defunct coffee shop, Linehan said."They pray when they go to work. They pray at work. They pray when they get their tax forms," he told the jury. "It is going to be a sad case. There are no winners here: There's a dead child, a mother with the loss of a child."
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