The Schaibles are charged in the death of their baby son, Brandon.
View full sizeCatherine, left, and Herbert Schaible arrive to turn themselves in at police headquarters in Philadelphia on Wednesday, The couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and who were on probation in their son's pneumonia death were charged with murder Wednesday after a second young child died under what a prosecutor called "eerily similar" circumstances. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Daily News, David Maialetti) A bail hearing is scheduled for a Philadelphia couple who believe in faith healing over medicine and are charged with third-degree murder in the April death of their 8-month-old son.
Herbert and Catherine Schaible are being held on $250,000 bail and are scheduled for a hearing this morning. Their attorney plans to ask a judge to lower the bail, but prosecutors want them held without bail.
The Schaibles are charged in the death of their baby son, Brandon. They had been convicted of involuntary manslaughter after another child, 2-year-old Kent Schaible, died in 2009.
Prosecutors say they prayed over Brandon for two weeks before he died, and never called a doctor.
The couple's seven surviving children are in foster care.