Faith Healers: Not Guilty

Jurors explain their verdict: http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_072409_news_oregon_faith_healers_verdict.72638466.html

http://www.kptv.com/news/20158093/detail.html

The couple’s church, The Followers of Christ, teaches that belief in faith-healing and biblical references to “the laying of hands” offer the only cures to illness.

What might this mean for future blood doctrinal issues?

Two steps back?

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The church defends its theology as the literal interpretation of Scripture. It has been subject of numerous investigations by local media as well as Time Magazine, 20/20, PBS and religious periodicals.

Oregon authorities have long sought to hold the church responsible for what the state has called an “abnormally high” infant mortality rate. A former state medical examiner claims the Followers of Christ community has an infant mortality rate 26 times that of the general population.

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_072409_news_oregon_faith_healers_verdict.72638466.html

"But jurors said that in the end they just did not believe the couple killed their daughter on purpose. They also didn’t believe the Worthingtons had any intention of harming her."

That much appears evident from the reports. However, the definition of manslaughter, as we understand it, is the unplanned or not pre meditated death of someone by your own actions, either unlawful or negligent

So their lack of malice toward the child would not be relevent . They still found the father guity of negligence toward his daughter.