Pair Relying on Prayer Get Prison in Child’s Death
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HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. — A couple convicted of involuntary manslaughter for relying on prayer instead of medicine to treat their daughter’s diabetes were sentenced Tuesday to at least 2 1/2 years in prison.
Dennis and Lorie Nixon got a year more than prosecutors had requested because Shannon, 16, was the second of their 10 children to die under such circumstances.
Shannon died of treatable complications from diabetes a year ago.
The Nixons had been put on probation after pleading no contest in 1991 in the death of their 8-year-old son from an ear infection.
Lorie Nixon is expecting a baby in July.
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