Schaible: 3rd-degree murder, second child dead of untreated pneumonia
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The parents withheld medical care because their church taught reliance on prayer and faith healing, leading to a second child's preventable death.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (2015) 'Appeals court lets stand the Schaibles' 3½-7-year prison sentences for 3rd-degree murder', 16 September. Available at: inquirer.com (Accessed: 14 July 2026).
Herbert and Catherine Schaible 'pleaded no-contest to third-degree murder' after their '8-month-old son died of pneumonia in April 2013 because they believed in healing through prayer, not medicine.' The aggravating fact: 'At the time, the Schaibles were on 10 years' probation for the 2009 death of another son, 2, who also died of pneumonia' — a second child lost to the same belief after a court had already intervened.
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