Faith healing couple charged over death of baby daughter

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Apr 2, 2008 2:49 AM EDT

Article Source: Telegraph

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Seeded by Red Wolf

Two followers of a fundamentalist Christian church who allowed their baby daughter to die because they favoured faith healing over medicine are to be prosecuted for manslaughter.

Carl Worthington, 28, and Raylene Worthington, 25, surrendered on Friday to charges that their inaction killed their infant daughter and were indicted by a grand jury in Oregon's Clackamas county.

Their 15-month-old daughter Ava died in March after suffering from bacterial bronchial pneumonia and a blood infection, both of which were treatable or preventable with antibiotics, according to the State medical examiner's office.