“Wisconsin and more than a dozen other states have protections in place to keep parents who choose prayer over medical attention from being charged with child abuse. The Neumanns’ attorneys maintain that the law protects parents up through the creation of a potentially lethal situation, making the line where faith-healer parents cross over into criminal liability a blurry one. An Neumann family attorney told the AP that the couple is ‘devastated’ by the decision. ‘They’re still mourning the loss of this child,’ said Dale Neumann’s defense lawyer Steven L. Miller. ‘From their perspective they felt they were acting in a legal manner.'”
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