------------------------------ Boy Dies During Exorcism, Minister Charged With Abuse Fri, 06/09/2006 – 11:50am
Ray Hemphill, a self-described* minister of a Milwaukee strip-mall church*, faces trial for *allegedly killing an 8-year-old autistic boy during an exorcism:* On a Friday night in August 2003, Terrance Cottrell's mother and two other women at *the Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith* *prayed* and sang *as they helped the minister lay the boy on the floor and restrain his legs and arms as he struggled, kicked and scratched.* Hemphill, *the preacher,* who reportedly *weighed more than 150 pounds, sprawled across Terrance* "to keep him from hitting his head on the floor, *because he was bucking*," a church official later told reporters. *After two intense hours* *of casting out what he believed were evil demons* ,* [Jezuz intoxicated Idiots]* Hemphill arose, his shirt soaked in sweat, and *realized that Terrance wasn't moving anymore.* In fact, *at some point, the boy had urinated on himself and his face had turned blue. [This is what happens when someone murders you]* *The doe-eyed child*, who was set to start third grade the following week, *had been suffocated on the church floor*,* while his mother and onlookers helped an ignorant man of the cloth perform a pointless exorcism. [Christoholicism, the cruel result of jezuz/xian bible intoxication]* Hemphill stood trial in July 2004 on charges of felony child abuse. If convicted, he faced up to five years in prison. *Though the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide,* *District Attor*ney Michael McCann *pursued the lesser charge of felony child abuse,* because he said it would be difficult to prove Hemphill knew his actions presented a great likelihood of causing Terrance's death. "It was a gutless and, I thought, immoral decision on his part," said Annie Laurie Gaylor of The Freedom from Religion Foundation, a nonprofit group in Madison, Wisc., dedicated to issues of separation of church and state. Upon hearing of the charges, FFRF members commenced a letter-writing campaign to the DA's office, ultimately to no effect. Further complicating the case against Hemphill is a little-known "Treatment through Prayer" statute designed to protect Christian Scientist parents. Under the state law, anyone who "provides a child with treatment by spiritual means through prayer alone for healing in accordance with the religious method of healing" is not guilty of child abuse. http://www.progressiveu.org/145045-boy-dies-during-exorcism-minister-charged-with-abuse ------------------------------ -- MARLENE VAN DOORN'S jusfiq hadjar (66 years old) is a human? we're not sure yet. There's still no proof - JustJoiningTheTribe [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/uTGrlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
