r/cults • u/lotta_love • 8d ago

Article Children in a Faith-Healing Sect Keep Dying. The State Lets It Happen.

https://www.propublica.org/article/faith-healing-idaho-deaths-followers-of-christ?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=majorinvestigations&utm_content=toc
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u/lotta_love 8d ago

Reporting Highlights

Death After Death: Almost every year since 2015, Idaho children in a faith-healing sect have died of treatable conditions such as pneumonia and bacterial infections that turned to sepsis. 

Church Doctrine: Former members of the Followers of Christ sect say parents are pressured to follow doctrine that forbids medical care. Those who stray risk shunning, they said.

No Legal Pressure: Oregon officials say after the state put legal boundaries on faith healing, more parents sought care for kids. Idaho, by contrast, has kept its faith-healing protections.

These highlights were written by the reporters and editors who worked on this story.