Couple sent to prison for 2nd prayer death

Thursday, February 20, 2014

PHILADELPHIA -- A couple who believed in faith-healing were sentenced Wednesday to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison in the death of a second child who never saw a doctor despite being stricken with pneumonia.

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