Parents Avoid Prison After Son Died from Curable Disease
On September - 20 - 2012
Brandi and Russel Bellew pleaded guilty to second degree manslaughter and received only probation after they would not allow their sixteen-year-old son treatment for his easily curable appendicitis. According to the NY Daily News, the family is part of the General Assembly and Church of the First Born, which doesn’t believe in using modern medicine. READ MORE HERE
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