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Children in a faith-healing sect keep dying. Idaho laws let it happen
Children in a faith-healing sect keep dying. Idaho laws let it happen
Children in a faith-healing sect keep dying. Idaho laws let it happen

Published on: 08/25/2026

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Newborn baby Malachi lies in the lap of his mother after dying from pneumonia and bleeding lungs – preventable conditions that could have been treated in a hospital – in 2023 in Idaho. Since the 1970s, the state’s criminal and civil laws have allowed parents who belong to Followers of Christ and the state’s other faith-healing sects to pray as their children die.

A sheriff’s deputy opens the door of an Idaho farmhouse where a newborn baby has just died. It’s almost 10 p.m., but the house is filled with adults and children seated anywhere they can find a spot: in reclining chairs, on the wood-stove hearth, on a chest of drawers. Some of the women hold babies in their laps.

News Source : https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2026/08/children-in-a-faith-healing-sect-keep-dying-idaho-laws-let-it-happen.html

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