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| DaveSaenz |
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/07/09/bible.study.beating/
Texas boy allegedly beaten in Bible study
July 13, 2002 Posted: 4:13 PM EDT (2013 GMT)
Capitol City Baptist Church, where one of the men charged with beating the child is a pastor
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AUSTIN, Texas (CNN) -- Austin police arrested a church pastor and his twin brother Tuesday, alleging they used a tree branch to beat unconscious an 11-year-old who misbehaved in Bible class.
Joshua Thompson, 22, a pastor at Capitol City Baptist Church, and his brother Caleb turned themselves in Tuesday and were released on $25,000 bond, KEYE-TV reported. They were charged with injury to a child, a felony punishable by up to life in prison, the station reported.
The alleged beating took place July 3, according to reports. The brothers thought the boy did not take his Bible verses seriously enough during a church-sponsored summer camp for Spanish-speaking students, officials said.
The alleged abuse took place at a private home, said Bobby Taylor, the child's attorney. "They ... cut a branch off a tree, made my client lay on the bed, and beat him," Taylor said.
Court records obtained by Reuters alleged that the beating lasted for 90 minutes, broke blood vessels and caused the boy's kidneys to fail. The brothers allowed the child to take a break in the restroom during the reported beating, documents said.
Joshua Thompson beat the child while Caleb Thompson held him down, Reuters reported, citing court records. They reportedly turned up a radio to drown out the child's cries, the news service reported.
Afterward, the two took the boy back to his home, where Joshua Thompson told the parents the child needed further discipline, the AP reported.
After the Thompsons left, the boy's parents discovered bruises and cuts covering his entire back, as well as bruises on his neck, buttocks and legs, AP reported. They called police and took their son to a hospital, where he remained in fair condition Tuesday, the news service said.
Capitol City Baptist does not support corporal punishment, said Jerald Finney, Joshua Thompson's lawyer. |
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| DaveSaenz |
Boy testifies in beating case
12-year-old says he was hit 100 times with sticks
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By Claire Osborn
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Wednesday, December 3, 2003
A 12-year-old boy testified Wednesday that a South Austin pastor beat him a hundred times with two sticks — until the boy's shirt was bloody — because the child was goofing off in Bible class.
"He said I have the devil in me," said Louie Guerrero. Guerrero was a witness during the first day of the trial against Joshua and Caleb Thompson, who are both charged in connection with assaulting Guerrero.
Guerrero testified that Joshua Thompson beat him while Caleb Thompson held him down on July 3, 2002. Joshua Thompson, at the time of the beating, was a pastor for a Spanish-speaking congregation that met at Capital City Baptist Church in South Austin.
Prosecutor Dana Blazey said during Wednesday's opening arguments that Guerrero spent five days in intensive care after the beating because doctors were worried he would have kidney failure.
The day before the beating, Guerrero's mother had had an argument at church with Joshua Thompson's wife, Blazey said. Joshua Thompson told Guerrero's mother she could no longer be a member of the church unless she begged for forgiveness and her husband apologized to the church, Blazey said. The prosecutor said Guerrero's beating was done out of "spite and vengeance."
One of Joshua Thompson's attorneys said his client was just doing what Guerrero's parents had always asked him to do. The boy's parents had "repeatedly asked, they had pleaded with Joshua Thompson to discipline their son," said Gerry Goldstein. "They said they were worried that he was not disciplined; they were worried because he had been kicked out of school not once but twice," Goldstein said.
"Joshua Thompson did beat Guerrero with a stick," Goldstein said. The stick, though, did not cause the serious injuries that sent the boy to the hospital, the lawyer claimed.
"That damage was caused by a blunt object," Goldstein said. "There was something else going on here. Something else went wrong."
Goldstein did not say what that was. |
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| anuneventrade |
Goodness, that puts a new twist on abuse, eh?
There had to be a massive amount of beating for there to be a kidney failure. This kid got beat so severely because he misbehaved? There has to be more to the story.
Also, I don't think that any parent means "Beat the living out of my child" when they say "please help to discipline him". I think they meant more along the lines of making him say a hundred Hail Mary's. |
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| Yoepus |
This is why we need seperation of church and state?
Religion in schools?
No maybe umm...
Scholarships for the poor?
hmm
Secular afterschool programs?
Mothers agains abusive homosexual priests?
the catholic church?
argh I can't get it...
I wonder which cause will champion this case though.. theres got to be one in there somewhere. |
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| DaveSaenz |
Apparently it takes the induction of kidney failure in order for the devil to be driven out of a small child. ;) Personally I just would have performed an exorcism, but then again, it's too bad they weren't Catholic...
I need 10CCs of Holy Water....stat!
:D
But in all seriousness, I really hope they nail these sickos. Their lawyer sounds like one of those ambulance-chaser types lol, but then you'd probably have to be to take their case. :nervous:
| quote: | Originally posted by Yoepus
I wonder which cause will champion this case though.. theres got to be one in there somewhere. |
How about ones that are against beating helpless children (for whatever reason)? That would include, luckily, the state.;) |
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| PHALPAX |
| Looks like corporal punishment is having a come back :D |
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