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...Nixons pleaded no contest to charges of involuntary manslaughter and endangering the welfare of a child, and they were put on probation. Last week the Nixons were found guilty of the same charges in the death of their 16-year-old daughter Shannon, who fell into a diabetic coma after four days of dehydration and nausea, dying on June 21, 1995. The Nixons, members of a tiny sect called the Faith Tabernacle Congregation, had refused to call a doctor on both occasions, convinced that all disease comes from the devil and that only God can cure illness. Charles Nixon...
...vomiting. When a brother asked about her condition, Shannon answered weakly, "The devil is fighting me hard." In the next 24 hours she started slipping in and out of consciousness, and her family increased the intensity of its prayers. On the evening of June 21, she fell into a coma and died, three days short of her 17th birthday. At her parents' trial, Dr. Michael Humphrey, an endocrinologist, testified that Shannon would have had a 97% chance of full recovery if she had been brought into the hospital on what turned out to be the last day of her life...
...Clark had no way of anticipating that when the world turned ugly for his son on the evening of March 21, there would be three bullies, not one. Nor did he know that they would be so monstrous: slamming Lenard's head against a wall, beating him into a coma and leaving him lying in an alley before going home to brag how they had taken care of the "niggers" in their neighborhood. When Lenard's father arrived at Chicago's Cook County Hospital, his boy "looked like how soldiers look after they get bombed--he looked like he fought...
Another employee said the student must have been in a "coma" to have slept through the bell...
Douglas Coupland is the author of Generation X, Shampoo Planet, Life After God and Microserfs. His latest novel, Girlfriend in a Coma, will be published this fall by ReganBooks...