For six agonizing days, members of the group chose “faith-healing” over proven medicine, believing that’s what God truly wanted, and the little girl eventually paid the price for their religious negligence.

Horrific.

All of them, including Elizabeth’s parents, were the adult members of a religious group known as The Saints—a tight-knit group that only has 23 members in total, spread over three families.

How fucking arrogant do you have to be to call yourself saints? This is why I used to answer the door to random religious preachers and say, “Go fuck yourself.” You can’t be more arrogant than knocking on my door and telling me that I don’t know what’s correct. And then I learned about these people. Wtf.

She said while it was a “good outcome”, the “system failed to protect Elizabeth in the first place”.

“We are only here today because more wasn’t done sooner to protect her or remove her from an incredibly unsafe situation in her own home,” Jayde said.

Yeah, that’s pretty much it. I had a friend who committed suicide. I blamed his ultra-religious parents (he was only 19 or so at the time). I’m sure he thought it was a sin when he masturbated. He believed the earth was 5000 years old and dinosaurs didn’t exist. Now tell me that his parents weren’t at least partially to blame.