If the parents don’t seek help for their own health problems, that is their choice as adults. But to deprive a child who will now never get to choose between rational understanding or mythical belief as a way of life is criminal.
But asking for laws banning religious instruction and rituals for children under the age of 16 would be considered intolerent.
These parents should be sentenced to 10 years education and their church fined €millions so they at least in future will instruct their flocks not to mess with the lives of children.

If a homeopathic doctor claimed to be able to cure a child’s virous with water and later the child died he/she would be prosecuted. Why should prayer be considered anymore viable than water as a cure?
Why should it be an “excuse” for killing a child just because the instructions came from a church pretending to have knowledge of a supreme being?

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It is indeed unjust that First Century Gospel Church, or at the very least the pastor who was present for the ritual, and who also neglected to get medical attention for the child, wasn’t also charged.

I would go further than Rosbif, however.  If anyone, adults or not, fails to seek medical attention for their health problems on the advice of a church who explicitly pretends to have expertise in curing illness (though prayer), then that church should be held legally accountable for what amounts to medical malpractice.

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Personally, I’m glad to see this.  It’s one more indoctrinated kid who won’t get to grow up and have kids of his own and spread this nonsense any further.  I can only hope the punishment for the parents is castration.

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