Caroline Overington; 16/9/08
A mother of seven has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of her four-year-old son, who for religious reasons was given no medical care for two years, despite being blind, unable to stand and forced to slither “like a snake” around the room. Paramedics found the child gaunt, with sunken milky eyes, and wrapped in a blanket in the family’s four-storey, four-bedroom home in August 2003. The boy’s mother told police none of her children had ever had medical treatment and she had never had medical treatment. If somebody in the family was sick, she would “say a little prayer”. She agreed that her son had never walked or crawled, “just slithered across like a snake”.
See: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24352110-5013404,00.html
