God Bless the Child

Season 2, Episode 5, Aired
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A couple faces trial after they deny medical help to their daughter based on their religious beliefs and their daughter dies of strep throat. Stone's prosecution hinges on whether or not the parents wanted to call for medical help. Things take a turn when the investigation uncovers another child that died under similar circumstances.moreless
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      • German episode title: "Ein Kind Stirbt", meaning "A Child Dies". Edit

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      • (Ceretta and Logan are listening to tapes of 911 calls.) Phil Cerreta: Grandma fell down a flight of stairs. Daddy's beating up Mommy. Mike Logan: Car Accident. Boiler explosion. Phil Cerreta: Wanna move to a small town in Jersey? They got a nice police chief there. Edit
      • Ben Stone: They want to martyr themselves to religion, fine. They don't have the right to martyr their child. Edit
      • Cora Amado: When my children are sick, I pray for their souls. For their bodies, I get a doctor. Edit

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      • Phil Cerreta: These people aren't Moonies. "Moonies" are members of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Many people consider the group to be a cult that brainwashes people. Edit
      • Adam Schiff: Oh, by the way, Judge Kurland thinks he's William O. Douglas. Make your motion simple, or he'll never understand it. Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and at one point almost his running mate, William O. Douglas (1898-1980) is, to date, the longest serving justice of the U.S. Supreme Court: 36 years and 7 months. Douglas' opinions were characterized by a fierce commitment to individual rights, the First Amendment, and a distrust of government power. In more than 300 dissenting opinions, for over half of them he was the lone dissenter. Edit
      • Ben Stone: 'U.S. versus Ballard.' The Supreme Court says the truth of their religious beliefs should not be submitted to a jury. In the case of U.S. v. Ballard (1944), Guy Ballard was a follower of the "I Am" movement, and claimed that the words of a saint were transmitted through him and that he had the power to heal people. He solicited contributions for his healing through mass mailing, and was arrested for mail fraud. The government held that Ballard knew very well that his religious claims were false. Ballard contested that the government had no right to judge his religious beliefs. In U.S. v. Ballard (1944), the Supreme Court upheld the position that juries should only consider the sincerity of religious beliefs (e.g., if Ballard truly believed he had the powers he claimed) rather than their content (e.g., whether or not Ballard's beliefs made any sense). In delivering the majority opinion, William O. Douglas wrote: "Heresy trials are foreign to our Constitution... Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others." Edit

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