A 7-Year Old Child Was Murdered

I took 7 hours to kill her. Somehow, the cult members claim this is what their god expects them to do. Implicitly that means that's what their god expects YOU to do.

Their apologists in this practice say these particular parents just lost control. It went on for a number of days with prayer breaks, and 7 Hours of actual beating. You don't "lose control" for hours and days with prayers in-between.

Are this one child's sisters and brothers going to be adopted by more people like them? How many more children are living in environments like this? Some of them recommend beating children as young as 5 months.

This is from Observe To Do Dot Com

At five months, she was too unknowing to be punished for disobedience. But for her own good (and our peace of mind), we attempted to train her not to climb the stairs by coordinating the voice command of “No” with little spats on her bare legs.

The switch was a twelve-inch long, one-eighth-inch diameter sprig from a willow tree... She had assumed the association of the painful switch to the stairs and my command. I had communicated to her my will and my resolve.

Typesetting choices are mine; the words are theirs

Personally, I don't think this child will ever trust their parents with anything as they're growing up. The parents are now a source of pain, rather than a source of solutions and comfortable space to just be (outside the impression of friends and rivals). It sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.

If Lydia, or any of the other child victims, had been adults the perpetrators probably would have gotten the death penalty, life in prison in the most liberal states, for torturing someone to death

On the other hand, if the district attorney where they live was a friend, they might have walked away with nothing. In a small town it would have sounded like silence.

Nothing ever happens in those places.

Are they making case law for lenient sentencing in their child murder cases and creating acceptance for themselves? Hey, we're just abusers, not killers, it's not that bad...