"Mental illness is an area that remains especially taboo in orthodox religious communities. "A lot of fundamentalist Christians, including pastors, believe that people have mental illness symptoms because they do not pray hard enough or do not believe in God enough," says John McManamy, mental health journalist and author of Living Well With Depression and Bipolar Disorder.
The medical community has long grappled with religious traditions that jeopardize their patients' health. "Fundamentalists tell us their lives are in the hands of God and we, as physicians, are not God," says Dr. Lorry Frankel, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and author of Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics. "We respect people's religious beliefs and try to compromise, but we won't deny treatment that will save lives."

If the parents are guilty of any crime here then surely all "followers of the Unleavened Bread Ministry, an online church that shuns medical intervention" are equally guilty. I'd start by removing all kids from the care of all followers, having arrested the leaders.

If only the parents are guilty, then a mental sentence is correct, not jail.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that medical knowledge is a deity's way of helping people. Maybe they'd feel better going off into the wild and living without technology of any type other than their teeth and nails. Survival wouldn't give them much time to pray.

SAD! Poor innocent children caught up in adult B.S.!
SAD!