Shyone Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 A couple of articles from News of the Weird. Child-Unfriendly Religions Jeff and Marci Beagley were sentenced to 16 months in prison in March after a jury in Oregon City, Ore., found them guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of their teenage son, whose congenital urinary tract blockage was treated only with oils and prayer prescribed by the Beagleys' Followers of Christ Church. Doctors said the boy could have been saved with medical treatment right up until the day he died. (The Beagleys' infant granddaughter died in 2008 under similar circumstances, but no criminal conviction resulted.) [CBS News-AP, 2-1-10] A 7-year-old girl died in February in Oroville, Calif., and her 11- year-old sister was hospitalized needing critical care, after being "lovingly" beaten by their adoptive parents, Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz, who are followers of religion-based corporal punishment. The Schatzes, as recommended by a fundamentalist Web site, had whipped the girls with quarter-inch-wide plumbers' rubber tubing, to supposedly make the children "happier" and "more obedient to God." Criminal charges against the couple were pending at press time. [Chico Enterprise-Record (Chico, Calif.), 2-12-10] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Valk0010 Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 A couple of articles from News of the Weird News of the Cruel maybe. Of course this will be labeled as extremism, but what decides extremism only its consquence, am I right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hereticzero Posted April 5, 2010 Share Posted April 5, 2010 A baby's dead and his killers, his own parents, pull only 16 months? The reasoning skills of our government are highly questionable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The-Captain Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 This makes me angry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpheliaGinger Posted April 6, 2010 Share Posted April 6, 2010 A baby's dead and his killers, his own parents, pull only 16 months? The reasoning skills of our government are highly questionable. Do something in the name of the Christian religion and you get off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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