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posted by mrpg on Friday March 17 2017, @06:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the god-help-us dept.

The Associated Press reports:

Oregon's chief medical examiner said Tuesday that an infant born to members of a church that practices faith healing died from complications of prematurity as authorities conducted a criminal investigation into the child's death. The baby, Gennifer, was probably "a couple of months" premature and her lungs were too underdeveloped to allow her to breath unassisted for long, Dr. Karen Gunson, the chief medical examiner, said in a phone interview.

Clackamas County sheriff's investigators will present the case to prosecutors but have not finished interviewing witnesses, Sgt. Brian Jensen told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

She died a few hours after her birth at her grandparents' home on March 5 in Oregon City, where the Followers of Christ Church is based. Her birth was attended by three traditional midwives, family members and other church members, authorities have said. No one called 911 when the baby began to have trouble breathing, Jensen said. A deputy medical examiner responding to a call about Gennifer's death noticed the surviving twin, Evelyn, was also struggling and called law enforcement, who persuaded the parents to get her medical treatment. That baby girl is doing well in the neonatal intensive care unit at Oregon Health & Science University, Gunson said.


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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @09:17AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @09:17AM (#480312)

    Maybe more of a vampire thing?

    Dude, they SUCK BLOOD FROM THE PENIS.

    Some old man puts his mouth on the baby's dick and... seriously, WTF is wrong with him... and how is it that mom and dad don't beat him to death for molesting their baby?

    These newborns are getting STDs from cocksucking. It's about what you'd expect from a Church of Satan initiation rite.

    If opposing this perversion is Aryan, so be it. Count me in. 88

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by rondon on Friday March 17 2017, @12:45PM

    by rondon (5167) on Friday March 17 2017, @12:45PM (#480365)

    Yeah, just read the post article. That person isn't Aryan, he/she is just opposed to newborn's getting STDs from old men's mouths. Which seems like a perfectly valid concern for any human being who respects the rights of others.