Jeffrey and Marci Beagley, Religious Nuts, Guilty in Not Providing Dead Son with Medical Treatment

• i know im all late and what not, but today i just got this as a homework assignment and i think this is some BULL!!! If you study your bible and what not or even watch the History Channel u will find out that Christianity is not a religion, but a faith and lifestyle. I think if people in a group call themselves christians or whatever, if ur not being "christ like" such as the mockery term states, then ur just full of crap like these parents. When you are killing your child instead of finding earthly was of treating him/her than ur a bad parent hands down 6:30 lol

• I am a Christian. Christianity doesn't call for you to be ignorant. On the contrary, it calls for you to be wise in all things, and to weigh out very important, sometimes life and death, as well as eternal things. You are being stupid. We're talking death here! These CHILDREN died! You can commit a crime and/or a sin by commission or omission. Omission is called NEGLET. These children would have lived had it not been for the NEGLECT of this family. They should have had to serve a longer sentence, so as to send a strong message to you people who put religion in place of the brain God gave you. Read the parable by Jesus, about the talents that you are going to have to give an account for. Your brain and your cognitive thinking are one of these. They are a very wonderful gift God gave you, and you people have put them on a shelf, so as to belong to a more elilte group, so you can say you have more faith in God than others. Well, look where your faith has gotten these people...these children. Don't you know that Luke, in the Bible, was one of Jesus' best friends and followers, and that he was a medical doctor??? Use your brain!!! Stop giving Christianity a black eye in the eyes of the world who needs it so badly. God uses humans to help other humans. He uses Doctors and the medical community to help and heal people everyday. In Matthew 18:6 the Bible says, "But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. In a more modern version it says, "But if you give them a hard time, bullying or taking advantage of their simple trust, you'll soon wish you hadn't. You'd be better off dropped in the middle of the lake with a millstone around your neck. Doom to the world for giving these God-believing children a hard time! Hard times are inevitable, but you don't have to make it worse—and it's doomsday to you if you do." These children had simple trust in their parents to do the most basic care that would keep them alive. Look what there trust got them. SHAME ON THE PARENTS and SHAME ON EVERYONE WHO SUPPORTS THEM!

• Whats not really suprising is that you would ask that LMAO!

• ::rolls eyes::

• I have come across a post that these people were on anti-depressants. It's not really surprising. Does anyone have anymore information on this story?

• It's times like these I'm glad I rejected christianity at young age and embraced the old ways.

• Torn: Good point. I don't think the "one size fits all" idea works.

• Eh.. I was discussing this sort of thing with my wife a while back and I had the same stance on the issue as most of you who have already posted. If the child can be easily cured by anti-biotics or some simple surgery, then it is wrong for parents to keep the child from medical help. But then she brought up another question: What if the child was diagnosed with terminal cancer of some kind and doctors wanted to impose chemotherapy to possibly prolong the child's life for awhile? In the state in which I live, it is unlawful to reject the chemotherapy. In my book, chemotherapy itself is a controversial practice and a sketchy one at best. Is there a line to draw somewhere?

• Awww, poor you.

• Seriously? I been following the drama from the comments sections in the various posts. It's actually more entertaining than some of the stories. But if you don't like this site ... or the style of writing ... GO AWAY. Long time lurking, really enjoy the site .. haven't posted much but this crap is starting to annoy me.

• There are so many things wrong with this article. If you people want to read accurate stories without a bunch of typos, then I suggest you go somewhere else.

• I am not religious but I can understand blind faith to a point... But for a child to think that their parents know whats best and blindly be led to die is absolutely ridiculous. Why is the state letting them get away w murder?! Obviously the parents of these children dont give a shit what happens to them I hope they are manhandled in prison and get their sentence there.

• I have NEVER understood these kind of belief systems either, the whole idea of sitting back and doing NOTHING as a child/person dies is ridiculous when it is something where medical solutions CAN be found. It just is'nt possible for me to fathom, standing around la-de-da.

• That's gotta be a hell of a painful, drawn-out way to die, and the "sentence" for these murderers (because that's what they are) is absolutely outrageous. When your religious beliefs start harming others, THAT IS WHERE THE LINE SHOULD BE DRAWN. There is something truly wrong with a person who chooses to watch their child die, I don't care what their beliefs are, that's just plain evil.

• i totally believe in separation of church from state, but when it comes to killing, as in human life sacrifice, or blatant neglect, then it's time for the state to step in. if all it would have taken was antibiotics in either of the cases in this one family, and they failed to be humane enough to administer the meds, they have the blood of their dead children on their hands. the state must show, not only this family, but families of these church members, that it is wrong to boldly sit by and allow a death that could easily have been prevented. it's not like a DNR (do not revive) order for someone that would require true heroic life saving measures to sustain, this is simple antibiotics for cryin' out loud! 16 months! and with overcrowding and sentences only being served half the term, they'll be out in no time at all. oregon is a liberal state, but they really need to revisit their laws regarding this.

• I live here in Oregon and everytime one of these nut jobs from The Followers of Christ church end up in court because of another child dieing I just want to scream... And obviously our judicial system here sucks because they all keep getting off or getting little jail time so of course they are not getting the message... And what is wrong with these parents how can you just sit back and watch your children die... Something has really got to be wrong with you to do that....

• Whenever I see stories like this and the one from a week or so ago about the parents that beat their daughter to death, I don't see them as "religious nuts". I see them as just plain NUTS! It just baffles my mind how people could just blindly follow someone. Have they always been this easily lead astray? Just sad all around.

• 16 months? Honestly?

• this is a f*cking outrage!! how can they get away with this? only 16 months?!?!? NOOOOOO!!! By the Gods it can't be...

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