And this is surely what the judge, if possessed of any compassion at all, will prescribe: that the Neumanns be detained in a mental-health facility until such time as, presumably through confronting the crime they have committed, they can become mentally competent enough to be allowed back into society in the certainty they'll do further harm to neither themselves nor others.

It won't help, and the people who follow them will still think they're being martyred.

We could do with a bit more, in this society, of nutcases being told (in the kindest possible way, but forcefully nonetheless) that they're nutcases rather than everyone being forced to pussyfoot around the issue for fear of upsetting others' sensibilities.

I am pleased and excited that a judge had the stones to convict them of manslaughter. That's a giant leap forward from the days when it was OK to forego medical care for your children based on "faith".

...but what to do with them. I don't know. You're right that they need psychiatric care, but that delusional mindset is nearly impossible to crack.