The Houston Chronicle reported today that FLDS members were called to testify before a grand jury today. Members may face indictment on charges of child abuse. However, the women called in to testify are refusing to do so by pleading the fifth amendment. For background information on this case, please check out [...]
A boy, was ordered by a rural school district (Needville ISD) located outside of Houston to cut his waist length hair due to its violation of the school district’s dress code. However, as reported by the Houston Chronicle, Michelle Betenbaugh, the boy’s mother, says that cutting his hair would conflict with his Native [...]
On our previous post, Assessing Culpability for Parents Who Neglect Treating Sick Kids, author and journalist Shawn F. Peters tipped us off on the New York case of Barbara and Gideon Hershberger that he’s following on the Religious Convictions Blog, based in part on the reporting of WWNYTV in Amish Couple Accused Of Medical Neglect [...]
ABC News and the ABA Journal reported today that a Massachusetts woman is being charged with child endangerment after she failed to pick up medications and take her 8 year old son to follow up treatments for his non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. At the time he was diagnosed with the disease, doctors indicated the boy would [...]
