TL;DR no information about cause of death or why the parents didn't call for emergency services sooner. Investigators speculate that they didn't want police near their home as they didn't call for 4 days and the mother met them at the gate instead of the house. Miranda (child) dead on arrival at ER. Both parents arrested for first degree felony of injury to a child by omission. Per sheriff child was immobile after the injury and lying on a pallet.

Really fucked up parents these are. Some humans don't deserve to have children.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Was gonna guess Jeezus but maybe it’s just regular evil?

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is only regular evil. Magical evil doesn't exist. Every evil/demonic story from history was just one or more people indoctrinated in to stupid things, or wild animals.

"The banality of evil" is all about how fucking stupid it is. It doesn't take more than basic neglect to produce horrible outcomes just as bad as directed malice.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

I don't think the guy was worried about demons, bro

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 12 points 3 months ago

If they don’t want cops at their house, I get it, but then drive the kid to the ER yourselves! Don’t try to cure her with magic homeopathic smoothies! I hope the judge throws the book at these dipshits.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 33 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So euthanizing a non-viable fetus is "murder" but not giving a child under your care the bare minimum of medical treatment is "injury of a child"? I hate this fucking state.

[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just to be clear, the label doesn't explain the kind of punishment that can be applied. I'm not sure about this particular charge, but the lesser "Serious Bodily Injury to a Minor," which can occur through direct action or neglect, carries a sentence between 6 months to 99 years with or without parole.

This state absolutely sucks with regard to human rights, but it at least does some things right and leaves a lot of room for juries to make decisions based upon the evidence for cases like these.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 3 months ago

Okay, good. I was going to say “sounds like involuntary manslaughter to me”, but I guess labels don’t matter much if the sentence can still be reasonably tough.

[–] Sumocat@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

“Investigators believed the couple avoided seeking medical attention to prevent law enforcement from coming to their home.” — Which was the actual problem, not the smoothies.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 3 months ago

it reallly sounds like 'parents kill child, feign accident'

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I saw someone post a video recently about how whole food 'unprocessed' (lol) smoothies are a cure for cancer and a bunch of other things. And she was 100% serious and had a not insignificant following. I just hope someone with cancer doesn't see it and believe it.

[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 7 points 3 months ago

My dad tried treating his cancer with naturopathic remedies. They, uh, weren't doing anything. Then he had a stroke and was confined to the hospital for months. The hospital, naturally, gave him real treatments for cancer. He died about a year later, but his last test showed no cancer markers.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I mean, one high profile case of it was Steve Jobs. The dude followed an all-fruit diet that basically caused his pancreatic cancer, and then tried to treat the cancer with more fruits.

IIRC, Ashton Kutcher ended up trying his diet when prepping to play him in a biopic. And it caused so many health issues that Kutcher had to stop.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Had a colleague get diagnosed with cancer. Like really early and one of the ones that is considered very treatable with high success rate for treatment.

He said he didn't trust the medical industry and vitamin c would take care of it. He died from what was probably a very treatable disease.

Of course he had some family trauma, a loved one with colon cancer that tried long shot treatment but still died, despite suffering from the treatments along the way. He even says the doctors said the circumstances were way better for him, but he just wouldn't believe them.