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		<title>Couple Must Pay Daughter&#8217;s Medical Bill</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; A couple convicted of reckless homicide in their newborn daughter&#8217;s death must pay the hospital bill for another daughter who was kept in intensive care for 75 days despite their religious objections, an appeals court ruled.
Dewayne and Maleta Schmidt now face a nearly $172,000 medical bill for 5-year-old Makalynn, along with a work-release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indiana Couple Sentenced in Baby&#8217;s Death</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FRANKLIN, Ind. &#8212; An Indiana couple who chose to pray over their dying newborn daughter rather than seek medical care for her were sentenced Friday to six years in prison for reckless homicide.
But a judge suspended most of those prison terms for Dewayne and Maleta Schmidt, instead ordering the couple to serve about a year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents say they did nothing wrong</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 convicted for failing to seek help before infant girl died said they&#8217;ll obey court.
FRANKLIN, Ind. &#8212; A Johnson County couple convicted of reckless homicide for failing to seek medical help for an ailing newborn told a judge they would do the same thing under similar circumstances.
Dewayne Schmidt, 35, and Maleta Schmidt, 30, told Johnson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key tenets include trust in God to heal the sick, aversion to war</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The General Assembly and Church of the First Born is a sect with more than 300 years of history in the United States.
Although congregations primarily are found west of the Mississippi River, there were 13 in Indiana with a combined 595 families, according to a 1997 church directory obtained by the Iowa-based nonprofit advocacy group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New baby death in faith-healing congregation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARTINSVILLE, Ind. – Police are investigating the death of a premature baby whose parents belong to a church that preaches reliance on faith and prayer for healing.
Sarah Leeman died Saturday. She was born May 28 at the home of her parents, Louis and Patricia Leeman, Martinsville.
The Leemans told police the baby’s condition deteriorated in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Franklin death among few in which faith fuels lack of care</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In churches of all types across Indiana, prayers for the sick and dying are offered up every week.
And the relationship between God and good health is so pronounced that scientists have documented how people who attend church regularly seem to live longer, healthier lives than those who don&#8217;t.
But as was evident last week in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple found guilty in baby daughter&#8217;s death</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[After deliberating for more than six hours, a jury decided two Johnson County parents committed a crime when they refused medical treatment and instead chose prayer to heal their sick newborn.
Maleta and Dewayne Schmidt stood holding hands in the courtroom Thursday evening as the judge told them they each were guilty of reckless homicide in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Couple&#8217;s trial puts religion, law at odds</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents who favor faith over medicine charged in death of newborn daughter.
Indiana law and a couple&#8217;s faith in the power of God and Indiana law will clash head-on this week in a Johnson County courtroom.
Dewayne Schmidt, 36, and his wife, Maleta Schmidt, 30, are facing a single charge each of reckless homicide in the August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jury questions focus on personal freedoms</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jurors were asked if they believed in miracles.
They also were grilled by attorneys on their religious beliefs and government involvement in parental decision-making.
Fourteen people were chosen Friday to determine whether two Johnson County residents are guilty of a crime for favoring prayer over medical treatment and being responsible for their infant daughter’s death. The jury, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Infant-death trial starts Tuesday</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trial of a couple whose ailing newborn daughter died when they rejected medical treatment in favor of prayer may focus more on facts than faith.
Dewayne and Maleta Schmidt are charged with reckless homicide in the August 2003 death of Rhiana Rose Schmidt, who became ill after she was born at home.
The husband and wife [...]]]></description>
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