I don't get why the media has been giving this family airtime. They don't seem to get it - it's not about not vaccinating - it's the fact that their 19 month old child had NEVER seen a doctor. Never. Even the birth, it was a "freebirth" with no licenced doctor or midwife attending (though their birth attendant apparently was a nurse, but still). I suspect if they had taken their child to the doctor at least for a few well child visits, the verdict would have been different, but the blatant thumbing of their noses at the medical system played a lot into the verdict.
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