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marfknox
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/31/2011 : 11:46:48
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As I read this article, and especially when I read that the couple has two other children at home, I started to feel bad for them and briefly wondered if the punishment wasn't too harsh. But then I got to the section about the prosecutor's arguments and the larger context of this case, after which I felt justice as been served. Some snippets:
Prosecutor Mike Regan took a hard line on the couple... because “they did not think they did anything wrong.”
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A message needed to be sent to the church, Regan said. Child abuse for any motive, he said, is still child abuse.
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Regan said he was loathe to use the cliché of asking the judge to “send a message,” but said he thought it was necessary for the church. Using an exaggerated analogy of a pagan group that sacrifices children in the woods, he asked Herndon how the effect of that groups differs from the situation at hand.
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The Hickmans were the fourth couple from the church to be convicted for refusing to get medicine for a sick child. |
My emphasis in bold.
This is just an incredibly sad and screwed up situation, not just with this one incident of a child's death, but all the other children that have suffered because of this church and its congregants' foolish beliefs and actions.
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Edited by - marfknox on 10/31/2011 11:47:18
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Sentencing of Faith-Healing Couple in Oregon
