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Article: JUDGE KEEPS MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE AGAINST CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST PARENTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 23, 1989
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A Suffolk Superior Court judge has refused to dismiss
manslaughter charges against a Christian Scientist couple whose
ailing son died after being treated through spiritual healing alone.
Judge Sandra Hamlin late Thursday ordered her decision to be
sealed pending a hearing because it contains information from
impounded documents, a court official said Friday.
Lawyers in the case received copies of the decision Friday.
A grand jury last year indicted Ginger and David Twitchell
for manslaughter in connection with the 1986 death of their son
Robyn, 2 1/2. He died of a bowel obstruction following a five-day
ailment during which he was treated through spiritual healing
alone, in ...