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An 11-year-old girl died after her parents prayed for healing rather than seek medical help for a treatable form of diabetes, police said Tuesday.

Everest Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin said Madeline Neumann died Sunday.


"She got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.

Vergin said an autopsy determined the girl died from diabetic ketoacidosis, an ailment that left her with too little insulin in her body, and she had probably been ill for about 30 days, suffering symptoms like nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of appetite and weakness.

The girl's parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, attributed the death to "apparently they didn't have enough faith," the police chief said.

They believed the key to healing "was it was better to keep praying. Call more people to help pray," he said.

The mother believes the girl could still be resurrected, the police chief said.

Athugasemdir

[Hjalti Rúnar Ómarsson, 26.3.2008 kl. 16:17]

Þau gleymdy því að kalla til sín öldunga safnaðarins og láta þá smyrja sjúklinginn:

Sé einhver sjúkur yðar á meðal, þá kalli hann til sín öldunga safnaðarins og þeir skulu smyrja hann með olíu í nafni Drottins og biðjast fyrir yfir honum. Trúarbænin mun gjöra hinn sjúka heilan, og Drottinn mun reisa hann á fætur. Þær syndir, sem hann kann að hafa drýgt, munu honum verða fyrirgefnar. (Jak 5.14-15)