Judge orders state custody, medical care for Oregon faith healers’ child
July 3rd, 2010
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A judge has ruled that a couple who belong to a church that embraces faith healing must surrender their child for failing to provide medical care.
Over the past 30 years, more than 20 children of Followers of Christ church members in have died of preventable or curable illnesses.
The current case is unusual because the authorities intervened before a child died.