After the verdict was announced, the Followers of Christ church issued a short statement through their attorney, Steven Ungar:. The jury's decision is final. However, we are saddened and disappointed by this result," Foote wrote. The church and prosecutors will meet again in court early next year. They are charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of their year-old, Neil Beagley, who died last June of an untreated urinary tract blockage.
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She and her husband, Carl Worthington, practice faith healing and faced manslaughter and criminal mistreatment charges in Ava Worthington's death. But on the witness stand Monday, accused of using prayer instead of medicine to heal her increasingly ill child, Worthington said she didn't remember the month-old girl choking at all.
Worthington contested or said she didn't remember several points from interviews with police on the night of the death and two days later. Worthington and her husband, Carl Brent Worthington, are members of the Followers of Christ, a small church that shuns medical care in favor of prayer and faith healing rituals such as laying on of hands.
They are accused of manslaughter and criminal neglect in the death of their daughter, Ava, who died last year of bronchial pneumonia and a blood infection, according to the state medical examiner. They put their faith in spiritual healing instead of doctors, say the prosecutors.
In court Monday, a prosecutor read from police interview transcripts that quoted Raylene Worthington as saying Ava was "choking on phlegm" and a "little chokey. After a hearing on the Constitutional issues which was conducted on January 7 and 8, the judge directed that the case would proceed to trial. On June 15, , the Judge considered the motion of Mr. Worthington to dismiss the Indictment on the grounds that their prosecution constitutes unlawful selective and vindictive prosecution, in violation of Mr.
Jury selection began on June Testimony was presented during the following weeks. Last reply by 34u0tmz9oc Apr 21, Last reply by 34u0tmz9oc Apr 9, Last reply by D L Aug 8, Sunday School May 28th Sunday School May 21st Sunday School May 14th Powered by. Badges Report an Issue Terms of Service. Parents in faith-healing case never considered calling a doctor Posted by Dan on July 3, at am View Blog.
Carl Worthington center confers with attorney Mark Cogan as Raylene Worthington listens to opening statements in their trial. In Clackamas County Circuit Court on Wednesday, prosecutors played videotaped police interviews with the Worthingtons, who are accused of criminal mistreatment and manslaughter for failing to provide medical care for their daughter.
Ava Worthington died March 2, , after her parents and other members of the Followers of Christ tried to treat her with faith healing. Ava's father, who goes by Brent, his middle name, described what happened: Ava came down with what appeared to be a cold or the flu on a Tuesday. By Saturday, her breathing became labored and the family turned to its traditional faith-healing rituals, praying, fasting, anointing the body with oil, administering diluted wine and laying on of hands.
By Sunday, Brent Worthington said he thought there was "a possibility" his daughter was so sick she could die.
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