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Judge Orders County Attorney for Dad in Prayer Death Case
Associated Press
May 8, 2008
WAUSAU, Wis. - A Wisconsin judge says the father accused of reckless homicide in his 11-year-old daughter's death will get a court-appointed attorney. The mother is a hiring private lawyer.
Dale and Leilani Neumann are charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the Easter Sunday death of their daughter, Madeline, at the family's rural home.
Prosecutors say they acted recklessly by praying instead of seeking medical help as their daughter got progressively ill from undiagnosed diabetes.
Leilani Neumann has said the family believes in the Bible, that healing comes from God and they never expected the girl to die.
The couple face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
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