the stupid burns

[rivendellrose]

Turns out that killing your kid by not getting them treatment for a simple thing like juvenile diabetes is only worth 6 months in prison if you do it for religious reasons.

Because apparently criminal neglect is a-okay if you do it because you thought God would fix it.

Comments

[shadawyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree the sentence was too light and I'm concerned about the custody issue. I guess one can just hope that the kids don't get any other life-threatening illnesses sometime between those 3 month check-ups.

I'm just boggled. By creating that mandate, aren't they saying that the court doesn't trust them? I guess the judge felt that breaking the family part was potentially worse than risking the that the parents would do something like that again.

There is some merit to that, but sometimes, speaking from having been that child, the best thing is removal.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Totally. I know that throwing a kid into the foster care system is a horrible thing to do - my family cared for some foster kids when I was in my early teens, so I have a bit of experience, albeit from the opposite site, with how screwed up that system is. But for crying out loud - it's better than keeping kids with parents who are this clearly messed up.

[snakewhissperer.livejournal.com]

And this is jus such a case!