A mother and father who denied permission for their one-year-old boy to receive a life-saving blood transfusion were stripped of parental authority by courts on the same day, saving the life of the infant.
They cited religious reasons for endangering the life of the boy; speculation centres on them being Jehovah’s Witnesses.
The incident occurred when the infant boy suffered a severe haemorrhage in the alimentary canal, losing a large amount of blood in what doctors considered a life-threatening condition.
For the infant to receive treatment, parental assent was required, but despite doctors trying again and again to persuade them, they refused to allow the needed blood transfusion, claiming it was prohibited by their religion.
Desperate doctors quickly contacted a family court, and within half a day the court judged that as “medical neglect”, the refusal was effectively child abuse. As a result, they legally revoked the parental authority of the pair and passed it to authorities, allowing doctors to go ahead.
Normally such urgent judgments take a week or more, but in this case the court was compelled to act far more quickly; the revocation itself was a temporary measure, although it is not clear how long it lasted.
Via Itai News.
The mass media and hospitals are too tactful to reveal what religion was involved (certainly such objections are not normally associated with any Japanese religions); 2ch plausibly speculates that these were Jehovah’s witnesses.
The actions of the parents have been roundly condemned, with many wondering why such a group is not a restricted cult along with Aum Shinrikyo and company.
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Why on earth do Jehovah's witnesses do stupid shit like that? I realize it's not Kosher to EAT blood but to take a transfusion? Transfusion technology was developed long after their religion was founded. But I suppose their modern "prophet" doesn't like it but their "prophet"s have had 3 incorrect dates for armegeddon so far so why still believe them?
jehovah's witnesses....nuff said.
Because Religion is 90% crap and 10% money. Personally I find that religion is used in place when people have no access to proper education. Hence why the lot of stupid people are very religious fanboys and fangirls
Unless your a n00bentologist, then it's 50% money, 50% HP.Lovecraft, only without the awesome tenticle reap Gods.
having faith is not the problem, it gives people purpose, the problem is church, and some high and mighty people deciding whats right and whats wrong and they say its gods will, like the inqusition, and crusades and countless other pointless relgious wars... church is money and power over many, and as the saying goes, power coruptes all. I'm glad they were striped of there rights...and the child was saved.. religion is all fine and good, but people need to stop being sheep..
I wish I could bump this. Kudos, bolt.
Agree with the part that it was good the court took action and allowed the doctors to save the child.
on the religious part i will not comment.
Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absulutely has never been used so appropriately before. :P
Sheeple always, exist, though.
I've got a theory that net IQ is inversely related to the number of people.
bolt gets an intetrnet from this oldfag for some brilliant common sense. %_-
Agree.
"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absulutely"
Too true. Religious figures and churches, like politicians and political organizations, should be respected, but nothing more than just that. Once it developed into blind following, army of dark reigns again.
Having faith is precisely the problem. I don't understand how people can claim that it's not. Faith and only faith allows and strongly encourages people to believe irrational things, including incredibly self-destructive and otherwise harmful things, like "blood transfusion is bad". Faith and only faith can do that. Faith is the sole cause of this behavior. How can you claim otherwise? Without faith, this harmful belief would not exist. There is absolutely no reason to respect faith. It is just irrational belief that idiots hold up on a pedestal.
Charles Russel, the quasi-founder of Jehovah's wasn't so much a prophet, as someone who interpreted the Bible, albeit, incorrectly, twice.
But really, why the church remained for so long after inception, even after getting the dates of Armageddon wrong twice is beyond me...
They take the blood of Jesus, so they can't take any other blood. My best friends growing up were JWs, so I picked up on some of the theology. Kinda different, but except for the blood related child incidents, they're some of the nicest people around, if a little odd.
because what religion people are reflects how nice they are
"Kinda different" is putting it rather nicely, these people chose their religion over their own child, give me a fucking break.
When you believe in an Entity who will make you suffer for not doing His will far past your death, one starts to sympathize...yet in this case I don't agree at all with this religion that promotes this kind of action.
WEWEREBORNTOSUFFER!!!!
-Bullshit fags.... almost ALL interpretations of ANY religion is perverted in someway by someone to their own benefit.... how does suffering benefit that someone.... SICK EGO TRIPFAG!?!??!
"When you believe in an Entity who will make you suffer for not doing His will far past your death" ... you're obviously a crazyperson who should not be allowed to care for children.
The problem with that idea, Zelgadis4tw, is that Witnesses believe that God will not make anyone suffer. Rather at the time of judgement, the vast majority of people, the unsaved, will simply be cast into an eternal abyss and become nothing. That is to say, they will cease to exist, and thus they will not suffer in any way, shape, or form. Why? Because God is loving, apparently, and all that. Clearly casting your children into an eternal abyss because they disagree with you is the loving thing to do.. Sadly, this backwards logic is mirrored by the religion's many followers.
To their credit, they probably honestly believed they were saving the child's soul by letting him die. Good intentions, I suppose. Doesn't change the fact that they clearly shouldn't have been passing on their genes in the first place.
I can't wait for that kid to grow up and hear of how his parents opted to let him die rather than defy their religion. Hilarity shall ensue.
Hopefully he goes on to write a only partialy fictional slice of life eroge about the events which happened forthwith, and we can all fap.
Hopefuly Shiki makes a cameo.
Cthulhu in action.....?
I was thinking he calls it something like "Tsukihime" or something like that.
and his reaction when they ask him to join the cult after explaining everything.
if they explain anything
I don't think anybody can explain what a jehova's witness thinks...
More to the point, I don't think they'd ask him if he wanted to join...
why? I thought they would want their children to follow their foot step of doom like most of the other religious parents?
I think what he's getting at (or at least how I interpreted it..) is that the kid probably wouldn't have a choice in the matter.
It's just human nature: kids are inclined to listen to and imitate their parents. His parents will undoubtedly raise him like one, and so he'll be one (until he's much older, where upon he might choose to do his own thing.)
Unlike Aum Shinrikyo, Jehovah's Witnesses don't go around committing mass murder
They don't need to do it. They kill their own children through stupidity.
Something sane and resonable happening in the world and it was done by a court!
Surely some mistake
now I am sure the end of the world is coming...lol
Stock up on your canned beans and lolis while supplies last!
But lolis expire!
Not if you impregnate them for more future lolis!
but loli's can't get pregnant..
that's quite the endless post about religious crap, uh
i wonder if we'll ever be able to not to read about them, some day. not because you don't report these kind of things to us, but because they all die. yuppieh.
I always wondered why they mix meanings on "ingestion of" IE taking in from the mouth, there is a difference in taking it in from the veins in "like natural" state and drinking it like whine.........
Man, this kid is going to grow up hating his parents forever.
Pwned.
Religion, making stupid people believe in anything since the beginning of human civilization
I find it amusing that you used the cult and crime tags for jehovah's witnesses and their beliefs
because letting their child to die is not a crime?
That and they have such strong beliefs that they prefer to kill their own child than to save it. If that can't be considered the kind of stupid shit that a cultist will do, I don't know what it is.
The court ruled it was criminal neglect.
The court should have kept it's nose out of religious matters...sheesh, sounds like CPS here in America:|
I really hope I am just having trouble picking up the sarcasm here, and you aren't this fucking stupid.
They did keep their noses out of religious matters...they simply ruled that the act of letting their baby die (not the reasons behind it, the act itself) was of criminal neglect. Rather straightforward, really.
I think a lot of us here really couldn't care any less about what religion people are, but there's a line that is crossed when it results in endangering the actual life of an individual.
Point taken
Jehovah's Witness detected.