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Jun 9, 2009 9:22 am US/Central

Wis. Mother To Be Sentenced In Prayer Death

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) ― The mother convicted of reckless homicide for praying while her daughter became gravely ill and died of undiagnosed diabetes will be sentenced Oct. 6.

A Marathon County jury convicted 41-year-old Leilani Neumann, of rural Weston, of second-degree reckless homicide on May 22 for failing to rush 11-year-old Madeline Kara Neumann to a doctor. The girl died of untreated diabetes in March 2008. Prosecutors convinced a jury the mother recklessly killed the girl by ignoring obvious symptoms until it was too late.

Judge Vincent Howard set the sentencing date during a brief court hearing Tuesday.

The maximum punishment for the conviction is 25 years in prison.

The child's father, Dale Neumann, is also charged with second-degree reckless homicide. His trial begins July 23.

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Last month, a Brown County judge said the parents of Daniel Hauser, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., were medically neglecting him for resisting chemotherapy in favor of natural remedies.


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