Faith healing vs Medicine

No matter what the parents believe... a 2 year old will not be able to decide whether he can or can not follow his parents' beliefs. It is a parents duty to provide for basic life sustaining needs. Having diarrhea, fevers, productive cough, and at the end, inability to eat should have alarmed the parents enough to seek medical attention. No matter what their religious beliefs and ideas about medicine for healing, they should have known that inability to eat and diarrhea are not life-sustaining so that as parents they should have known to seek help than prayer. Prayer is not going to make your 2yo eat or stop having diarrhea.