What to make of this...

I guess it's one thing if an adult chooses to die because of religious convictions - but forcing it on a child who does not have the ability of an adult to make that call seems a bit cruel.

From NBC News

Homicide convictions upheld for Wisconsin parents who treated dying daughter with prayer

Rob Orcutt / AP
Leilani and Dale Neumann during their trial in May 2008.

By M. Alex Johnson, Staff Writer, NBC News
A deeply religious Wisconsin couple who prayed over their dying daughter rather than seek medical help were properly convicted of homicide, the state Supreme Court decided Wednesday.

Kara Neumann, 11, of Weston, Wis., died March 23, 2008 - Easter Sunday - of complications of untreated juvenile onset diabetes.

According to the case records, Kara had been showing symptoms of exhaustion and dehydration for more than a week, but her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, refused to take her to a pediatrician, and decided to respond to her illness with prayer, not medicine.

A pediatrician testified that Kara's disease was highly treatable and that her chances of survival were high until "well into the day of her death."