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Catherine (left) and Herbert Schaible arrive to turn themselves in at police headquarters in Philadelphia last May. Their eight-month-old son died last year after they refused to take him to a doctor. They were sentenced to 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison for the boy's death.
A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith-healing have been sentenced to 3½ to seven years in prison in the death of a second child who died without seeing a doctor.
Philadelphia Common Pleas Judge Benjamin Lerner told Herbert and Catherine Schaible (SHY'-bull) on Wednesday that it wasn't 8-month-old Brandon's time to die.
He said: "You've killed two of your children ... not God, not your church, not religious devotion — you."
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The couple advocate "faith healing" and don't believe in medicine. This is their second child to die before the age of 3.
The Schaibles pleaded no contest. They are third-generation members of a small Pentacostal community, the First Century Gospel Church in northeast Philadelphia.
Both expressed remorse and apologized for violating a court order to seek medical care for their children following the 2009 death of a 2-year-old son of untreated pneumonia.
Their six surviving minor children are now in foster care.
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