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Loading ...Johnson County Indiana: A Johnson County infant less than 2 days old died Tuesday at her parents’ home of a treatable infection, after her parents failed to seek medical treatment during or following her birth. Parents of Rhiana Rose Schmidt, the deceased infant, are members of a Morgantown-area church that advocates faith healing instead of medical intervention. They said, ‘We’ll just pray for her.’ That’s their belief.
The Johnson County Sheriff’s Department and the county coroner are investigating the death. Preliminary autopsy reports show the girl died of puerperal sepsis, a general infection acquired at birth and typically treated with antibiotics.
The infant’s death was the third such death involving untreated children at the General Assembly and Church of the Firstborn. “They’re very cooperative,” Sheriff’s Lt. Mike McElwain said. “They’re very nice people. They just don’t believe in medical treatment.”
Well that’s just super. Assholes.
