Child Unwell But Parents Did Not Seek Medical Attention (OP)
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A couple serving probation for the 2009 death of their toddler after they turned to prayer instead of a doctor could face new charges now that another son has died.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible belong to a fundamentalist Christian church that believes in faith healing. They lost their 8-month-old son, Brandon, last week after he suffered from diarrhea and breathing problems for at least a week, and stopped eating. Four years ago, another son died from bacterial pneumonia.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that a decision on charges will be made after they get the results of an autopsy.
Catherine Schaible's attorney, Mythri Jayaraman, cautioned against a rush to judgment, and said the couple are good parents deeply distraught over the loss of another child.
"There are way more questions than answers at this point. We haven't seen the autopsy report. We don't know the cause of death of this child," Jayaraman told The Associated Press. "What we do know is Mr. and Mrs. Schaible are distraught, they are grieving, they are tremendously sad about the loss of their most recent baby."
A man who answered the phone at a listing for Herbert Schaible declined to comment and hung up.
A jury convicted the Schaibles of involuntary manslaughter in the January 2009 death of their 2-year-old son, Kent. The boy's symptoms had included coughing, congestion, crankiness and a loss of appetite. His parents said he was eating and drinking until the last day, and they had thought he was getting better.
The Schaibles were sentenced to 10 years' probation.
At a hearing Monday, a judge told the couple they had violated the terms of their probation, noting the Schaibles had told investigators that they prayed to God to make Brandon well instead of seeking medical attention.
"You did that once, and the consequences were tragic," Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner said, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.
Prosecutors on Monday sought to have the couple jailed, but Lerner permitted them to remain free because their seven other children had been placed in foster care.
"He feels they are a danger to their children — not to the community, but to their own children," Assistant District Attorney Joanne Pescatore, who prosecuted the couple in 2010, said Tuesday.
Herbert Schaible, 44, and his 43-year-old wife grew up in the First Century Gospel Church in northeast Philadelphia and have served as teachers there. The church's website has a sermon titled "Healing — From God or Medicine?" that quotes Bible verses purportedly forbidding Christians from visiting doctors or taking medicine.
"It is a definite sin to trust in medical help and pills; and it is real faith to trust on the Name of Jesus for healing," says the message, from last May.
A phone message left with the church on Tuesday was not immediately returned.
The church's pastor said in 2010 that the couple had never received medical care themselves beyond the help of a lay midwife who attends home births.
The Schaibles did take their children for medical checkups as required by their probation, according to Jayaraman, the defense attorney. Jayaraman said that Brandon was checked by a doctor when he was 10 days old, but she did not know whether the child had seen a doctor since.
"Nobody argues that these aren't very loving, nurturing parents," she said Tuesday. "Whether their religion had anything to do with the death of their baby, we don't know."
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format_quote Originally Posted by IAmZamzam
“Do not take any human beings life—[the life] which God has willed to be sacred—other than in [the pursuit of] justice.” (Quran 25:68, Asad)
one can argue that children are not human beings. Just like how Muslims argue that fetus is not a human being and can therefore be aborted.
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format_quote Originally Posted by LauraS
What, so he shouldn't be dealt with by man made law too?
I hereby reject all man-made law.
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format_quote Originally Posted by العنود
I haven't been following this thread. But in Islam a fetus is a human being at 4 months of age- that is when it is 'Ensouled' ..
Narrated Jarir: The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: He who is deprived of gentleness is deprived of good.
I've read 40 days. Not 4 months. Human heart starts beating by 35 days.
Please take that hadith in context. Many kaafirs during Prophet's time were gentle. Abu Jahal etc.
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Your behavior should be yours regardless of whom it is you are dealing with.
Not telling you not to be firm but firmness built upon principle.. I see you direct the same behavior toward Muslims here, even though none of them have imposed opinion on you, they're merely stating the facts!
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^^ I stand corrected on the 40 days part. It is 120 days, not 40. Regardless, i think aborting cuz one decided to have a swing one night is an abhorring act.
I've done that only with few Muslims here, if you note. Especially Tyrion and Futuuwa. Others are my brothers and sisters and I have no ill feelings towards them.
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Ok I saw your post toward sr. Insaanah and I wasn't sure what your objections were.
I am glad you agree that abortion is abhorrent and that children are our amanat and that they're all born on fitrah and have no hand in how they're being treated and handled.
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The manly among men, is not he who says, "My wife and children are my property, so I can do absolutely whatever I like to them."
The manly among men, the defender of his family, is he who says, "Allah has given me a wife and gifted me children, and I fear Allah regarding my treatment of them, and never wish to do any wrong to them. I am their leader and have a big responsibility, and will be questioned as to my treatment of them and behaviour towards them. The Prophet was the best towards his family, and I wish to emulate his example, and to do all halal, kind and desirable things with them. "
It's been said in this thread that a bullet would be put through anyone who told anyone how to treat their family, and also that no homo sapien has the right to tell one how to treat ones family. Among Muslims, we also have those well versed in fiqh of the family, but also practical aspects of family life, marriage maintenance, bringing up kids Islamically, etc. Much can be learned from them. Yet somehow, it is taken that anyone that may attempt to impart good information and tips, is interfering with your family life, and has no right to do so, and such a person should be shot and anything they say rejected outright, or not even listened to.
Words and machoism and exalting of one's own sovereignty is being thrown around here in a manner that is bewildering. Some participating in this thread that might not yet be married, and although we pray it's the case, being gifted with children is ultimately under Allah's control, and you don't even know yet if you'll be able to have any. Similarly, you should know, that when you do have them, you should fear Allah regarding them, and it should not lead you to become proud or pompous and regard them as material property. Some here would say that it can be argued that children are not human. When you have your own children, I wonder if you'll say that about them.
As Muslims, the ummah is supposed to be one body, such that when one part is hurt, the rest responds with wakefulness and fever. We are also told that we are the best of nations because we enjoin the right and forbid the wrong. We are also told, that if we see something wrong, we should change it with our hands, if not with our hands then speak out against it, and if not that, then to hate it in our heart is the weakest of faith.
I hope we can all agree that no parent has the "right" to neglect or abuse the child under their care.
I sincerely hope that every child, Muslim or not, that is starving, abused, neglected, gets the help they deserve, ideally within the context of a family trying their best to improve.
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I’ve done that only with few Muslims here, if you note. Especially Tyrion and Futuuwa. Others are my brothers and sisters and I have no ill feelings towards them.
We’re all your brothers and sisters. It is synonymous with the very term “Muslim”. And “none of us will ever have faith until he likes for his brother what he likes for himself” (Sahih Bukhari 2:12 I believe).
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format_quote Originally Posted by Karl
Yes, I would imagine it is quite a rare stance nowadays. It is certainly not mainstream or "top of the pops" you could say. My passionate worldview has been gradually in decline particularly since the popular rise of socialism and Marxism during the course of the 20th and early 21st centuries as well as socialist cultural imperialism that has been foisted onto non Western countries as well (including Islamic ones). Believe it or not though, recognition of parental sovereignty WAS once extremely mainstream. My position would have been actually the norm and yours would have been considered "odd" to say the least. Interfering in someone else's domestic affairs was considered one big no go zone. Fathers would have reacted violently if outsiders dared attempted to interfere in how they chose to raise their offspring. It would have been regarded as about as confrontationally audacious as trying to burn down his house or abduct his wife.
Well perhaps it's because you went against your own conscience this is why it seems so rare to you. You admitted it yourself you are driven by passion. I think the equivalent arabic word for that (I read on a translated note) was Himya or Hamiya it is an ignorant trait. I also noticed that you've missed the whole chapter in the Quran that condemed arab men who burried their daughters alive because they were considered to be a disgrace to the household or clan. No I'm sorry to disappoint you, but you are not as remarkably outstanding as you seem to think you are and yet ironically it is you who denotes that he is not as arrogant and conceited so as to 'interfere' and save a child from a wrteched infliction caused by their own 'caring' parents. You know many of your likes still exist today and have existed throughout history and for your dismay they weren't prophets nor were they truly believing people either. We can't help it if you don't feel compassionate enough to care about the well-being of your own children. I suppose you'd still stand firmly on your stance if your parents have claimed this right to parental soveregeinty as well?. Or perhaps they already did and it was just a trait that you've inherited from them. But since we 'do' "create "our children then for all we care we can burn them alive now can't we?. Kudos to the merciless empire of parental soveregeinty launching one of the most significant and remotely disasterous revolutions in all history. More power to abusive parents and downplaying to 'evil wicked nosey wretches' who dare to interfere. Funny though you seem to be placing burning down someone's house or abducting his wife on the same footing as 'interfering' with the way they treat their children. *Note: This whole thread by the way is about specifically that; How they treat their children and not how they raise them;big difference*. But hey, why should anyone concern themselves with burning down or abducting the wife of such a man I mean he would eventaully have done it himself anyway; no need to be concerned over that.
Karl, I said this to you before and I'll say it again. It's hightime you get a load of yourself. Seriously.
This behavior in earth language and substracting all those fancy and sophisticated words like 'anarchist' and 'non-conformist' it's simply called being possessive a trait that is driven by the ego. The need to control someone and exhibit absolute power over them even if that someone was your poor helpless child.
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Salam alaykum
Hopely things will change at the some day and people learn to think that everything is not just only "interfere" of the domestic matters if there is some sort of abusing/violence inside of the family. I just found from other forum kind of link (sorry it is only by Arabic):
Saudi Arabia launches first anti-domestic violence ad
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I understand why there are people who do not want their domestic affairs to be interfered with by anyone, your children are your responsibility and you will raise them as you see fit. We are however not perfect beings so if I am doing something that might be putting my children in harm's way unknowingly I think I would certainly want people to stop me from doing so.
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format_quote Originally Posted by CosmicPathos
I hereby reject all man-made law.
All man-made law? I thought we were only talking about your own children, but this goes a lot further. Do you also claim to have a right to kill and abuse me and my children if were unable to stop you? And were you to do so, would you say the Police have no business arresting you and that the courts have no business judging and convicting you?
format_quote Originally Posted by Insaanah
I hope we can all agree that no parent has the "right" to neglect or abuse the child under their care.
I appreciate your sentiment, but this is obviously false hope, given what we have read here.
I do appreciate the other muslims writing in the thread, and I am convinced that this view Karl and CosmicPathos hold has little to do with Islam. There is something else going on here.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Pygoscelis
All man-made law? I thought we were only talking about your own children, but this goes a lot further. Do you also claim to have a right to kill and abuse me and my children if were unable to stop you?
Since I am not Br Cosmic I can't really answer for him but killing innocent people is against Islam so it is unlikely that he would think that he has the right to kill you or any member of your family.
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format_quote Originally Posted by Hulk
Since I am not Br Cosmic I can't really answer for him but killing innocent people is against Islam so it is unlikely that he would think that he has the right to kill you or any member of your family.
His children are innocent people and he has already said he has the right to kill them, so don't be so sure.
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^^ Sure. But you are not member of his family and family matters we have (even mostly) discussed in here. I hope we could stay on original topic, not try to go too far from it.
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So according to Cosmic child murderers should just be allowed to walk free until they die and can be judged by God.
I don't believe either Cosmic or Karl truly believe they have a right to kill their children to be honest. It's all very well saying I have a right to raise my children as I wish but if children are being abused by their parents then there obviously needs to be intervention and I don't believe any sane person could disagree with this.
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To be fair to Karl and Cosmic, neither of them are saying it is good to kill their children, or that they would do so, or that they should not be punished if they did. I have no doubt that they love their children, and I doubt they would kill or abuse them. From what I can tell they are just saying they will leave punishment up to Allah and that human society shouldn't interfere. Cosmic has now taken this position for not just child abuse, but for all human-made law. I ask them to correct anything I just said.
This position seems to run against any sense of protecting the innocent from wrongdoing. If Allah doesn't exist (my view), then this position leads to absolutely no personal accountability for ones actions. If Allah does exist (the majority view here) then this position leads to an after the fact punishment for wrongdoing rather than an impetus to prevent it.
Are there not numerous calls in the Quran for us to actively protect the innocent from harm, or have I been reading that in? If you saw a man torturing a child, or killing children, would you not feel compelled to stop them? Does the Quran not instruct you to stop them? Pretty much every other moral code I have come across does.
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