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August 11, 2005
Medicine vs. Faith Healing
A Franklin couple who chose to pray over their dying newborn daughter rather than seek medical care for her were sentenced Friday to six years in prison for reckless homicide.
Their daughter, Rhianna Rose Schmidt, died in August 2003, less than two days after she was born at the couple's home, from an infection typically treated with antibiotics.
The Schmidts' church, the General Assembly and Church of the
Firstborn, advocates prayer and faith healing over medical
intervention but does not require members to shun medical care.
Posted by nolandda at August 11, 2005 05:59 PM