Can I get a Witness?
25 June 2006 by Sean
Lisa W. over at Lemons and Lollipops sent us this tragic item.
Father of Jehovah’s Witness teen wants charges against lawyers in her death
A Calgary father whose daughter, a Jehovah’s Witness, died after refusing blood transfusions for leukemia is making a last-ditch quest for what he considers justice.
“I want the Watch Tower lawyers . . .charged with the murder of my daughter, Bethany,” Hughes said. “They lied to her. They convinced her that arsenic would cure her and was curing her.”
Jehovah’s Witnesses consider it to be against God’s wishes for one person to take blood from another.
Hughes blames the church for influencing his daughter to believe blood transfusions were wrong and wouldn’t help her.
“If the Watch Tower Society had left my daughter alone, she would have had a fighting chance to live,” he said.
There were months of legal battles over the medical intervention in Bethany’s care.
Her illness and death tore the family apart and renewed public debate over how to determine when a child should be able to choose medical care.
Hughes broke away from the church in order to get his daughter the necessary treatments and eventually divorced his wife Arliss, who is a devout Jehovah’s Witness.
Do a good deed and punch the next JW that shows up at your door at 9 A.M. on a Saturday. Then stuff a copy of this story in his/her mouth.
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25 June 2006, on 5:51 pm
Why must stupidity lead to such tragedy? At least the father was able to undergo some deprogramming…
25 June 2006, on 6:32 pm
ARSENIC?! JWs use ARSENIC?!
Why not just pump her full of sodium cynanide?
25 June 2006, on 7:10 pm
I have cousins (removed a few times, thank goodness) that are JW ::shudders::, they really are nuts.
25 June 2006, on 8:51 pm
These are the same people that predicted Armageddon not once, but twice and were wrong both times. And my mother has fallen in with them. Sad sad sad.
Her latest weirdness is that she’s now a vegetarian because “we didn’t eat meat until after the flood.”
Why this should be, I have no idea.
25 June 2006, on 9:27 pm
And they have the balls to question our morality and ethics . . . .
By the way, I recommend a book called _God vs. Gavel_ by Marci A. Hamilton. The author worked for a number of years in legal cases such as this (on the side of reason, of course).
25 June 2006, on 9:37 pm
I can only imagine how I would react if I had a daughter and one of these cretins endangered her life. My heart goes out to this unfortunate man and the little girl who was killed by religious fuckheadedness. I’m not so sure about the wife though.
25 June 2006, on 10:44 pm
I’m not sure I understand why someone other than the parents were making the medical decisions. Do JW’s give up their parental rights to the “community”?
25 June 2006, on 10:57 pm
I think I’ve told the story here of the little neighbor girl’s death at the hand of her parents- via a ruptured appendix and their electing to administer prayer rather than an emergency room(cockamamie religios beliefs and all). My boredom with the Baptist Church my parents dragged me to became something far more insidious than mere ennui that summer. I figured any gawd worth his salt would have overruled the kneeling idiots at the child’s bedside. That she died told me it there was either no one there or just some worthless asshole asleep at the switch. Sorry for the new commenter status. I’m dogsitting and on a different machine.
25 June 2006, on 11:02 pm
Truly sad! Leukemia is so curable with proper treatment.
No JW is ever treated kindly at my front door.
The last couple of naive young women that showed up in my backyard were shown the Skeptic Magazine I was reading with strong suggestions that they also read it before they go pushing their ignorant literature in the neighborhood.
I think it’s high time the government started charging these religious organizations with murder for such criminal actions. It should not be on the shoulders of the father to press charges or sue those responsible.
26 June 2006, on 11:08 am
Living on a farm with two gigantic LGD’s means we haven’t seen a JW in eons.
The dogs usually eat them before they get very far down the lane.
26 June 2006, on 9:39 pm
They’re so silly they go by a Germanic misinterpretation of the Hebrew; JHWH, which, in pronunciation, is more like “Yahweh”. Not that the pronunciation of a nonexistent entity’s name amounts to a hill of- garbanzo- beans but, if they can’t even get the name right…
27 June 2006, on 6:38 am
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29 June 2006, on 4:39 pm
Audrey, what are “gigantic LGDs?” Very Large Great Danes as opposed to the merely big ones? If so, wow; I’m impressed!