Ava Worthington
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Wednesday September 23, 2009
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
A man who failed to provide medical care to his dying daughter in favor of attempts at faith healing has been freed from jail after serving six days short of two months.
Carl Worthington, who treated his dying 15-month-old daughter Ava with faith healing rather than taking her to a doctor, was convicted of second-degree criminal mistreatment.
Both he and his wife Raylene had originally been charged with charged with second-degree manslughter and criminal mistreatment.
The Worthington’s are members of the Followers of Christ church — theologically considered to be theologically a cult of Christianity that has left a trail of death children its wake.
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Thursday July 23, 2009
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
A jury today found Carl Worthington guilty of criminal mistreatment in the death of his 15-month-old daughter, the first conviction under a 1999 state law passed to protect the children of parents who believe in treating illness solely with faith healing. Of the dozens of children buried in the Followers of Christ cemetery since the 1950s, at least 21 died from medically treatable conditions, according to a 1998 investigation by The Oregonian.
But the Worthingtons were the first members of their church to be prosecuted for failing to provide adequate medical care to their children.
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Tuesday July 21, 2009
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
The judge in the faith-healing trial of Carl and Raylene Worthington sent jurors home this afternoon after they sent a note saying they were deadlocked on all charges. The Worthingtons are charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminal mistreatment for failing to provide adequate medical care for their daughter in favor of faith healing practices.
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Wednesday July 15, 2009
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
The parents of Ava Worthington are members of the Followers of Christ, an independent church that shuns conventional medicine for spiritual healing practices such as the laying on of hands and anointing the sick with olive oil. They are accused of manslaughter and criminal mistreatment in the death of their 15-month-old baby girl.
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Sunday July 5, 2009
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
Its extreme, unbiblical believes regarding faith healing make the ‘Followers of Christ’ church theologically a cult of Christianity. Parents of the cult’s latest victim — their 15-month-old daughter — are currently on trial, charged with criminal mistreatment and second-degree manslaughter.
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Monday June 15, 2009
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing:
A couple charged with manslaughter claim they were within their constitutional rights when they decided to pray for their 15-month old daughter rather than take her to a doctor to treat her pneumonia. But legal experts believe that Carl and Raylene Worthington will likely have a difficult time arguing freedom of religion over the state’s duty to protect children from harm.
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Friday December 12, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
A Clackamas County, Ore., couple accused of letting their infant daughter die by relying on prayer, rather than medicine, today asked that the charges be dropped, arguing that they infringe on their freedom of religion and their right to raise their children in their own way.
“Mr. and Mrs. Worthington maintain that their prosecution contravenes their right ‘to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences,’ as guaranteed by the Constitution of the State of Oregon and the Constitution of the United States,” the motion said.
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Monday April 21, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing:
Log on to the Web site set up by defense attorneys for the Followers of Christ couple being prosecuted for the faith-healing death of their 15-month-old daughter and you’ll find information on religious freedom and several articles on the miracles of faith healing. What you won’t find there is a single detail from stories in The Oregonian documenting the pain inflicted on dozens of children born to Followers of Christ over the years.
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Thursday April 17, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
The Oregon City parents charged in the faith-healing death of their young daughter launched a counteroffensive today, debuting a new Web site and pledging a full-scale defense of their Constitutional right to religious freedom.
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Friday April 4, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
The woman was raised in the Followers of Christ Church and was taught, from her earliest memory, that doctors are a temptation and if you go to one, you are losing faith in God.
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Wednesday April 2, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
Carl Brent Worthington and Raylene Marie Worthington are the first parents prosecuted since Oregon cracked down on faith-healing deaths nine years ago, according to legislators and legal experts. If convicted, they could spend more than six years in prison.
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Tuesday April 1, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
Until the faith-healing death of an Oregon City girl this month, members of the Followers of Christ Church appear to have lost just one child to sickness since 1999, when Oregon banned parents from treating gravely ill children solely with prayer.
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Monday March 31, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
Carl and Raylene Worthingon are members of the “Followers of Christ Church” in Oregon City. It’s a church with a long history of child deaths., a history that led lawmakers to eliminate legal protections for parents who practice to faith healing.
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Saturday March 29, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
An Oregon City couple whose 15-month-old daughter died this month of medically treatable conditions surrendered to police tonight hours after a grand jury indicted them.
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Tuesday March 25, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
If prosecuted, Ava Worthington’s parents would be the first members of Oregon City’s Followers of Christ, a fundamentalist Christian denomination, to face criminal charges for failing to seek medical treatment for a gravely ill child. Of dozens of children buried since the 1950s in the Followers of Christ Church cemetery south of Oregon City, at least 21 could have been saved by medical intervention, according to a 1998 analysis by The Oregonian.
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Saturday March 22, 2008
Ava Worthington • Faith Healing • Followers of Christ (Oregon):
The child’s parents are members of Followers of Christ, an Oregon City church that practices spiritual healing rather than seeking medical treatment, even when children become gravely ill.
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- Death of child may put Oregon faith healing law to test
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