OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — The prosecutor in the trial of an Oregon City couple charged with criminally negligent homicide in the faith-healing death of their 16-year-old son says the teen should never have died.
Prosecutor Greg Horner told a Clackamas County jury in opening statements Tuesday that Jeff and Marci Beagley failed to meet the community standard for medical care for their child.
But defense attorneys for the Beagleys told the jury the couple were not aware of the serious disease affecting their son, Neil, because his symptoms resembled a cold or the flu.
The teen died in June 2008 of complications from a urinary tract blockage that doctors said could have been treated.
The trial is expected to last at least two weeks.
