This is sick, but not particularly surprising.

TRiG.

(Sorry. I’ll try to get out of cynic mode before posting again.)

“To think of a woman, turning up the volume on a television so her child’s screams can’t be heard is depraved beyond belief.”

Yes, that struck me as overwhelmingly depraved at first also, but what is even MORE depraved is a father bludgeoning his kid to death.

Our social mores say that women are cherubic protectors of children, while men are violent monsters who are prone to hurt children. I believe in recognizing and challenging these stereotypes, as they hurt us all.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/10/02/he-loved-stepson-man-says.html?sid=101

Here’s the Church link: (should anyone care to ask the dear reverend to continue with the rest of the story)

http://www.yournewscolumbus.com/love_of_church_no_act_for_corint.htm

I stopped wondering many years ago when I concluded that gods do not exist.

We all know there are some demented Christian fanatics who would believe the child somehow deserved to be beaten to death – for being demon-possessed, for example. Maybe that is part of what the reverend meant when he said, “. . . there is more to the story.”

Folks, I see this all the time. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve attended an incident of domestic violence and children CLINGING to me so hard. They want to go with me so bad to get them out of there. I had to start carrying lollipops in my bag to soothe them.
We’ve had child victims brought into our headquarters to have their injuries photographed.
Sometimes those injuries are in private areas. There is so little privacy after a crime.

I don’t wear a uniform, and no gun…so I guess I’m less intimidating. I try hard to respect the privacy and feelings of a child.

To think of a woman, turning up the volume on a television so her child’s screams can’t be heard is depraved beyond belief.
Beating deaths are terrible. And so many children who die from them, usually have old injuries that were never treated that make them irritable.
They are in terrible pain sometimes for months. Exacerbating a violent parent’s lack of patience with them.

Sometimes, don’t you wonder where God was when these children were suffering so?

Unless the good Reverend sir is stating that his son did not in fact beat his stepson to death, or contributre to his death in a major way, it is hard to imagine what more to the story could there be.

but hey. At least that poor little boy had a mother and a father.