Idaho Is Reconsidering the Law Allowing Religious Parents to Kill Their Kids Without Punishment

Idaho is one of only six states where you can escape charges of negligent homicide, manslaughter, or capital murder as long as it happened as an exercise of your religious faith.

So if your child dies because your Christian Science religion prevented you from taking her to a doctor, you won’t be punished. And Idaho is the only state of those six where children have actually lost their lives as a result of their parents’ religious beliefs.

That’s why it’s so important for the laws to change. When children die due to the extreme dictates of their parents’ faith, those parents need to be sent to jail. Religion should never be used as a Get Out of Jail Free card....
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2016/08/06/idaho-is-reconsidering-the-law-allowing-religious-parents-to-kill-their-kids-without-punishment/