A Texas couple has been arrested for murdering their 1-year-old daughter with a hammer. Twenty bite marks were also found on the child. These superstitious woos were trying to “rid her of demons.”
The child is now dead. So sad.
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yikes!! was this in the states?
sungirltan: Henderson, Texas.
thats quite mental although after reading the story they were awfully young
Reminds me of something someone said once about people who believe absurdities commit atrocities. To think the parents could actually love the child and think that the best thing for the child is to be beaten with hammers rather than be possessed by demons? Fundamentalist religion really is insane!
@singirltan: 18 and 19 is young — though not awfully young to me — but does that really make a difference?
The innevitable consequence of allowing ridiculous superstition to proppgate. Sad.
Psychological screening should be mandatory before anyone is allowed to breed.
Actually, I wouldn’t blame the superstition directly. From what litttle else I’ve found around, the man was pretty bad news: He’d failed to register as a sex offender and had displayed some disturbing behaviour in the past.
I’d blame mental issues, projection, and a destructive, co-dependant relationship. The Bible was merely the explanation they used for doing what they probably would have done anyway.
Metro, I’d actually go a step further and say that it’s likely that the “exorcism” claim was made up after the fact to try to justify/explain what they’d done.
It was only after the kid was dead that they tried to find a priest, and they gave the cops multiple stories about what happened. I think the exorcism story may simply have been the first one the cops bought.
It’s hard to imagine anyone doing this to their child for any reason.
If all the money used to spread and maintain religious beliefs was used instead to combat ignorance, these things wouldn’t happen.
It is heartbreaking, really, that a child would be tortured like that due to the parent’s weird beliefs.
@ Daniel it is very hard to imagine. :( It’s so horrible.
@Lorena: I wish that would be the case, but I think Metro makes a good point — though I think these beliefs encourage these kinds of acts, even without them these things would still happen to some degree, because of mental issues.
But spending all the money that is spent on religion (an unimaginable amount, I’m sure) on these kinds of problems would certainly help alot.
Lorena:
In a world without gods good men would do good, and evil men would do evil, but for good men to do evil, that takes religion.
Things like this would still happen. But they’d be rarer, and you wouldn’t get people supporting them.
You know, of all the fantasies I’ve had about killing people with hammers, none of them have involved killing a 1 year old. I don’t even know how you get there from here.
What road do you have to take from crazy town to get to homocide-ville? This is really frightening, and what bothers me is that I’m not the least bit surprised, and that five more instances of this jump immediately to the top of my mind.
In my opinion,the “possessed” defense is a lie. I think they are young and couldn’t handle the rigors of raising a child and lost it, child abuse at it’s worst. Very very sad indeed.
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