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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 17 2017, @04:16PM (#480480)

    Pharma and doctors have been getting away with brain damaging kids all over the country for years now. The CPS (actual nazis) steal kids from safe homes and keeps them locked up with kids who have been abused and don't keep them from being abused. Or pass them off to scumbag foster parents who abuse them in one way or another. If you have your child in US hospitals these stupid motherfuckers start shooting the mom up with pitocin just to speed the process up (and sell the drug) and then if they don't kill or brain damage the baby with all their "interventions" (see The Business of Being Born) they start shooting it up with poison as soon as it pops out. You, the medical establishment are the vilest of whores. Society has no right to force parents to allow these scumbag pieces of shit to damage their kids. fuck doctors and the socialists who want to push their "beliefs" on others. people have a right to their own wacky religions (except religions who believe in using force. i.e. islam) and can make their own health decisions. We have a country of brainwashed slaves that let "authorities"(thieving pigs and their controllers) tell them what to do about everything. heads will roll in my lifetime if authoritarians and their pigs and rats don't back the fuck off.