OREGON CITY, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon couple who belong to a faith-healing church have been arrested for investigation of second-degree manslaughter in the death last fall of their newborn son.
It’s the third such fatality involving the Followers of Christ church in the past two years.
Dale R. Hickman and Shannon M. Hickman were booked into the Clackamas County Jail early Friday. The Oregonian reports that Dale Hickman’s father posted 10 percent of their $500,000 bail and they were released about two hours later.
Their infant son was born last September about six weeks premature and lived nine hours. An autopsy determined the child died of staph pneumonia and complications from a premature birth.
