While reading through the current news articles at American Atheists, I was appalled at this story of two Mormon women in England who went totally beserk in disciplining six children.
Two ‘out-of-control’ Mormon women tortured six children by beating them with rolling pins and whipping them with stinging nettles, a court heard yesterday.
Deidre Carrington and Maria Keable are also alleged to have hit them with wooden spoons, made them eat hot chillies and punched and kneed them.
The pair meted out the brutal treatment to children aged from just two to 12, Canterbury Crown Court heard.
Prosecutor Robin Johnson said: “This was a case of two women who were completely out of control and were acting in a disgraceful way.”
We have discussed this many times before about how many fundamentalist god botherers are more apt to not only emotionally abuse children, but also physically abuse their children, justifying it as “correction” and “punishment” as ordered in their religious texts. “Spare the rod and spoil the child.”
Mr Johnson said: “She said she was a member of the church and had strict principles to teach children to work and be obedient.”
During her police interview Keable, of Ramsgate, said she was like a grandmother to the children and they called her Aunt Maria. She told police that in her country “the use of chilli was normal”, adding: “My mother used it.”
Mr Johnson said: ‘She believed her motives were Christian.”
You can read the entire story here: Mormons ‘hit children with rolling pins’
Suffer the little children. . .
This just gives me the chance to say again: Mix parenting with religion, and you get child abuse — both mental and physical!
If those two bitches like the “old traditional way of doing things”, let them be drawn-and-quartered and burned at the stake.
Or we could stone them.
How could you hit anyone with a rolling pin and not think it would cause them harm? A 2 year old can only understand even the simplest of ideas and they want to discipline the child? What kind of sick mean freaks are they? I think if a rolling pin is good for children then a baseball bat should be the proper prescription for Mormon adults. Batter Up.
I am wondering how these women came to have custody of these children. The article doesn’t say if the kids are related to either woman, and doesn’t say if they were foster kids, or anything.
When you are a religious fundamentalist, the actions of these women are viewed as a “loving act.” Weird, I know, but let’s face it, what fundie doesn’t believe in “tough love”?
It speaks to the psychology of what they believe about god. God is love and therefore any action of that god is a loving act - he is just torturing you for your own good. (That is the kind of thinking process I think they have.)
I’m a “right wing” Christian fundamentalist.
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I am guessing these women are not part of the mainstream LDS church, I am betting that they are members of one of the fundamentalist LDS faiths. They are probably polygamists.
Mind you I am not defending the LDS church, just stating that these women are probably FLDS. I wish I could see better what they are wearing. I am betting it is a dress and they probably have long straight hair.
Living around here you get good at spotting the fundamentalist polygamists. Long old fashioned dresses, long straight hair. No make-up, and depending on age, at least 5 kids with them and one on the way.
Why should anyone be allowed to do something to a child that would be considered a criminal act if done to a non-consenting adult JUST because the victims are children (smaller and defenseless)? If anything, one would think the judicial system would have been structured with more flexibility for adult-on-adult violence than for adult-on-child.
Slap an adult whose behavior you don’t like and see where that lands you. Or use a weapon like a bat (rolling pin) and find out how many more years that can add to your sentence.
Sick.
The pair are nutters! They have been handing out “The Book of Mormon” to the solicitors, security staff, barristers and ushers at the court where the trial is. I hate it when people try to force religion upon you.
Jury is out on the trial now. Expect a verdict today.
Verdict is back - both guilty on all counts. Happy holidays!
Verdict is back - both guilty on all counts. Happy holidays!
Yay…justice prevails!
They probably look at it as persecution and see themselves as some kind of imprisoned martyrs.