God Will Save Her

[s1962a]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9yxvjx19go

This made me angry reading it - what gives any parent the right to deny a child life saving treatment? It's good they got lengthy sentences.

Edited by s1962a on Wednesday 26th February 13:06

[biggles330d]

God clearly failed this time around.

[fly by wire]

If they are so intent on their medieval beliefs then they should be burnt at the stake.

Animals.

[BikeBikeBIke]

Even within their own terms of reference, God sent them insulin to save her and they chose to deny her the god-given insulin.

Aboslute scum. I hope 14 years means 14 years in Oz.

[anonymous-user]

“ The congregation, meanwhile, had prayed and sung for the girl as she laid on a mattress and her condition deteriorated. “

Jesus Christ, as you might say. Or not.

Poor kid, utterly tragic.

[jeff666]

Not the 1st,

wont be the last .

[captain_cynic]

s1962a said:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp9yxvjx19go

This made me angry reading it - what gives any parent the right to deny a child life saving treatment? It's good they got lengthy sentences.

Edited by s1962a on Wednesday 26th February 13:06

Religions hold too much power and government services have too little clout

If Social Services had of acted the (un)Australian would have had a full page hate wk over GOOD CHRISTIAN COUPLE HAD CHILD ABDUCTED BY GOVERNMENT with full page compofaces for the next 5 weeks. Doubly so if it happened under Albo.

I mean the Austrlaian government refuse to hand over George Pell for Paedophile charges because he was "too sick to fly" but apparently could fly to Rome just fine when the Vatican offered him a cardinals positin.

Absolute bks but nothing will ever change, especially in Oz.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

Throw them out of a fking plane, sans parachute. "God will save you. See ya."

[Mortarboard]

Ireland doesn't fk around in these situations. Family court is set up for emergency situations. The constitution protects all citizens from even their parents:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/court-orders-life-...

M.

[otolith]

BikeBikeBIke said:

Even within their own terms of reference, God sent them insulin to save her and they chose to deny her the god-given insulin.

There's an old joke about a priest on the roof of a flooded house turning away help with "God will save me". When the drowned cleric turns up at the Pearly Gates and says "But why didn't you save me?" God replies "I sent a canoe, a boat, a helicopter..."

[Dracoro]

Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufPHCVtjUAg

[cheesejunkie]

Mortarboard said:

Ireland doesn't fk around in these situations. Family court is set up for emergency situations. The constitution protects all citizens from even their parents:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/court-orders-life-...

M.

Ireland certainly hasn't been perfect in separation of church and state but I'm very glad of the advances it has made.

Now if only they could start with separation of GAA and state (joking, LOI fan).

But serious again, there are cases where the state need to intervene when parents are not being rational in putting a religious belief ahead of a life.

[Mortarboard]

Big change since the "X" case.

I remember the constitutional questions that arose around the LDS child. It boiled down to the child's right to life-saving treatment trumped the parents right to religious freedom.

Was delighted with the court, certainly a landmark case.

M.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

From the article:

"Prosecutors called 60 witnesses and painted a picture of an "intelligent" child who suffered greatly in her final days."

Clearly didn't take after her parents then, who are thick as pigst.