Praying For A Defense

Madeline Kara Neumann was a 11 year old girl who lived in the Wausau area. She died a year ago from untreated diabetes because her parents, Dale and Leilani chose to try to cure it with prayer instead of seeking medical attention.

There was a great deal of debate at the time on whether the parents should even be charged for their negligence in her death. Ultimately, they were charged and are both scheduled for separate trials later this month.

At the time of the charging, the parents were found to be not eligible for public defenders as they owned two homes and a business. Now they have gone through $12,000 in donations, have at least one home closing in on foreclosure and are both unemployed.

The public has already spent $13,000 in defending the father, and now the mother is going to ask for public assistance for a public defender.

While I believe in the judicial system and agree that these two people should be allowed to have fair trials with proper defense, I still can't help but feel angry that these people should be asking for public monies to go to their defense.

They should just be praying to be found not guilty. After all, they felt that their daughters life was not worthy of anything more than prayer, their is no reason why their lives should be treated any differently.