I see things like this on the internet and I become angry, as I have endometriosis and whether or not I can bear children is very much an unknown thing right now. If I had children, adopted children, or became a stepmom, however, I would love them and not force them into things that would result in their death. If they were sick, I would trust medicine and priesthood blessings to be able to bring about peace and healing however it was supposed to come. I wouldn't force feed my kids unproven natural crap until they quit breathing and died. I also express anger on behalf of those loving people who cannot have kids or have a very hard time having them. Children are gifts and as gifts, they need to be properly cared for at all times using the best empirically proven resources possible. Sick children don't need to have unproven remedies forced upon them that will make them sicker. The concepts of modern medicine do work and I don't doubt that Ezekiel Stephan would still be alive today if his parents had simply allowed him to benefit from proven medical treatments instead of being experimented upon with unproven remedies.
The outcome of the trial was ridiculous and it made my heart hurt for all those who have love to give to children, but haven't been blessed with them for whatever reason. I was sad during the original trial and became angry when I heard the outcome, as it wasn't enough to cover all the years that Ezekiel lost to stupidity. I'm grieving that the Stephans want to try and manipulate the justice system for their own benefit and that they don't seem to care or take responsibility for what they have done. They tried to take the opportunity to push their unproven medicines and treatments at public wellness conferences, but their appearances at said conferences were cancelled when organizers found out who they were and what they had done. There are natural remedies that work and have been scientifically proven to work, but the Stephans do not possess reliable knowledge or information on the subject and should not be trusted to promote wellness.
David and Collet Stephan were given too light of a sentence the first time, they got to keep their kids, and they were able to run away to B.C. to keep living a normal life even though they murdered their own child. Now, we get to see the same spectacle in court again where the Stephans will do whatever they can to avoid taking responsibility for what they did even though they know it was terrible. They will use fake science statistics to try and get out of further punishment and they will also try to hide behind their religion to con people into thinking they are good people and shouldn't be punished.
Even people who have religion do bad things, unfortunately, and they shouldn't use it to try and get out of punishment. All choices have consequences and I'm not sure what can be accomplished by having another trial except that the courts might decide to find the Stephans guilty of murder instead of the original charge and impose a harsher sentence that includes permanently losing custody of their children. I'm sure David and Collet believe that they will be found not guilty and absolved of all wrongdoing simply because they are, in their eyes, dutiful to God and to the resources that He has provided for them to advocate wellness through natural means and unproven techniques and medicines.
Children, however, are one of the resources God provided to them and they knowingly failed to promote wellness to Ezekiel to the point where he died. In the eyes of God, what David and Collet did was murder and He will ultimately be the judge of what happens to them in the hereafter. While they are still on Earth, however, they need to stop promoting themselves as good people who made an innocent mistake and look at reality. The Stephans were told to take Ezekiel to where he could be medically helped and they refused until he wasn't breathing, therby making the declaration that their obsessive belief in unproven medicine was more important than the life of their infant son.
When one is given an opportunity to show love and care to a child by making their health and wellness a priority and it's not done, that is called neglect. If a child is negelcted or forced to rely on unproven medicine to a point where their life is lost, that is called murder. What happened that day was clearly detailed in the news and it was very clear that the priority was on unproven, potentially dangerous natural medicine and not on the life of a very sick child. What's done is done and to open the old wound in hopes of being absolved of responsibility may backfire on the Stephans and I hope it does. I hope the Stephans lose their appeal, get a harsher sentence, and truly learn what happens to those who make these kinds of choices knowingly and willingly.
https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/article/603482/supreme-court-hearing-parents-convicted-toddlers-meningitis-death
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