An Oregon couple charged with criminally negligent homicide after their 16-year-old son died from a blocked urinary tract was found guilty today. Their religious beliefs called on faith-healing rather than taking their son - who they believed was suffering only from a cold or the flu - to a doctor. A relatively recent change in state law made such serious charges possible.

Oregon law once allowed parents to avoid homicide charges if they relied solely on spiritual treatment of health issues, but lawmakers changed the rules in 1999 because of the church's long history of children dying from untreated medical conditions.

"They did absolutely nothing," Prosecutor Greg Horner said when the trial began. "Their failure is an outrageous deviation from the standard of care our community expects and demands."

Shockingly - I guess is the word - the convicted couple are the grandparents of another child whose death resulted in a high-profile faith-healing trial. Their daughter - the mother of Ava Worthington who died of pneumonia - was acquitted.