Prayer death parent reacts to sentence

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – One of the Weston prayer death parents is reacting to their sentence.

“We are very thrilled with his decision to allow us to stay as a family unit, which was our main concern,” Leilani Neumann said in a posting on the Web site opentheglorygates.com.

Judge Vincent Howard sentenced Leilani and Dale Neumann to separately spend a month in jail each year for the first six years of their 10-year probation.

“The judge also realizes that jail time will not reform us, because he has witnessed our faith runs very deep,” the statement reads.

The Web posting is the first statement made by the Neumanns since their sentence. They declined comment when leaving the courtroom.