Faith healers charged with murder after 2nd death

May 22, 3:54 PM EDT Faith healers charged with murder after 2nd death By MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press

US Video Latest News Faith healers charged with murder after 2nd death UN urges action to end child soldiers in Myanmar NYC parents of slain children expecting baby boy Buy AP Photo Reprints Multimedia Child labor in Pakistan PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's 2009 pneumonia death have been charged with murder after a second child died. Herbert and Catherine Schaible (SHY'-bull) face third-degree murder, child endangerment and other charges in the April death of their 8-month-old son, Brandon. Prosecutors call Brandon's death "eerily similar" to that of his 2-year-old brother Kent in 2009. First Assistant District Attorney Ed McCann says the Schaibles are entitled to their religious beliefs - but not when it endangers their children. The Schaibles are members and former teachers at the First Century Gospel Church in northeast Philadelphia. Catherine Schaible declined to comment earlier Wednesday. Defense lawyers call the couple loving parents who did not intend for their sons to die. © 2013 The Associated