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Analyze and summarize the following news-like text snippet: 
Are decades of needless child deaths a thing of the past for the Followers of Christ?
Prosecutors hope a groundbreaking statement by the young parents who failed to summon medical help before one of their newborn twins died marks a turning point for the faith-healing Followers of Christ in Oregon.
At least two dozen children of church members have died since the 1950s because they didn’t get the medical help they needed to survive treatable ailments ranging from pneumonia to a urinary tract obstruction.
One of them was the premature daughter of Sarah and Travis Mitchell on March 5 last year.
“We should have sought adequate medical care for our children and everyone in the church should always seek adequate medical care for our children,” reads the statement signed by both Mitchells.
The couple had embraced a church-based philosophy of shunning modern medicine and relying on prayer instead. They didn’t call 911 when their twins struggled after a home birth. At their sentencing Monday in...<|im_end|>
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Prosecutors hope a groundbreaking statement by the young parents who failed to summon medical help before one of their newborn twins died marks a turning point for the faith-healing Followers of Christ in Oregon.
At least two dozen children of church members have died since the 1950s because they didn’t get the medical help they needed to survive treatable ailments ranging from pneumonia to a urinary tract obst... (Further analysis would depend on the specific query.)<|im_end|>
