> Diabetic girl dies as parents pray instead of calling for medical aid
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> By Tom Leonard in New York
> Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 28/03/2008
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> An 11-year-old girl died from diabetes after her parents prayed for her
> recovery rather than calling for medical assistance.
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> Dale and Leilani Neumann say they are not 'crazy religious people'.
> But after Madeline died, they prayed that she might be resurrected
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> Madeline Neumann died on Sunday in Wisconsin, from an undiagnosed but
> treatable ailment.
> Dan Vergin, the local police chief, said she had been ill for a month,
> suffering symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, excessive thirst, loss of
> appetite and weakness.
> "She just got sicker and sicker until she was dead," he said.
> Even after her death, her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, who did not
> belong to any organised faith, prayed over her body in the hope that she ...