Noir Angel Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 n Washington state a Christian homeschooling couple received maximum prison sentences allowable under the law after being found guilty of beating and starving their adopted daughter to death in accord with Biblical based parenting techniques. Superior Court Judge Susan Cook showed no mercy to Larry and Carri Williams, found guilty of causing the tragic death of their adopted daughter, Hana, by using Biblical based parenting techniques found in the controversial child-rearing book, To Train up a Child, by Michael and Debi Pearl. Cook sentenced Carri Williams to 37 years in prison. Her husband Larry, convicted of lesser charges, was sentenced to just under 28 years. Both terms are well above the standard sentencing range. Cook said, ?I feel the punishment should match the outrage felt by this community. I am at a complete loss. I think at some point in this trial each and every one of us sat stunned and speechless without the slightest hope of making any sense of this whatsoever.? Last September a jury found Larry Williams guilty of first-degree manslaughter, and his wife, Carri Williams, guilty of homicide by abuse as well as manslaughter. The couple adopted Hana, 13, from Ethiopia in 2008. Hana?s death was consistent with a corporal punishment style advocated by many Christian extremists, and memorialized in the controversial book, To Train Up A Child. According to reports, Hana was beaten and starved as part of a regimen of corporal punishment subscribed to by many Christian homeschoolers and other Christian fundamentalists. The New York Times reports that the couple's abusive parenting tactics mimicked instructions from the Christian parenting book. Evidence presented at trial indicated Carri Williams had repeatedly beaten Hana with a plastic tube - a device recommended in the book. To Train Up A Child advocates using a plumbing tool to beat children with starting at age one. The book also advocates giving children cold water baths, putting children outside in cold weather, and forcing them to miss meals, as well as beating them; all of which exemplifies the abuse investigators said Hana endured. The book is also linked to the deaths of at least two other children, four-year-old Sean Paddock of North Carolina and seven year-old Lydia Schatz of California. In each case, punishment techniques advocated by the controversial Christian parenting manual were used. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perochan Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 recall the damn books and burn them. +E.Worm Jimmy 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted November 6, 2013 Subscriber¹ Share Posted November 6, 2013 recall the damn books and burn them. damn right, wtf? freedom of speech and all, but a manual on child abuse? beating from age 1? should be illegal, like other forms of child abuse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaP Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 A terribly sad story and a sick book written for sicko. This should have been the beginning of a new and beautiful life for the young girl. In the end she got worse than what she had before all this because of stupid religious nuts. Those 2 tards missed the opportunity given to them to make a difference for a young girl. So sad :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocM Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 recall the damn books and burn them.Seriously? You do realize that there are sociopaths out there who could find justification for this in a cookbook? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganX Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Seriously? You do realize that there are sociopaths out there who could find justification for this in a cookbook? Agree. The book is disturbing but not the issue here. They are sociopaths and more. What's truly disturbing is the fact that they adopted this child to do this. Edit: Just watched a video of the mother's testimony. Clearly insane, she's not faking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compl3x Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Seriously? You do realize that there are sociopaths out there who could find justification for this in a cookbook? Except it wasn't a cookbook. If a persona believes their holy book justifies violent torture you can more easily ignore that little moral voice in your head which is telling you it's wrong. You can't separate bad ideas from bad behaviour, no matter how hard you try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloatingFatMan Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Thank you, Judge Cook, for restoring a little faith in the justice system. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Raze Subscriber² Posted November 6, 2013 Subscriber² Share Posted November 6, 2013 Two down, so many more to go. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian S. Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 This is so sad ;( that book "To train up a child" surely doesn't represent the Christians I know... This incident is disturbing to say the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorganX Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 Except it wasn't a cookbook. If a persona believes their holy book justifies violent torture you can more easily ignore that little moral voice in your head which is telling you it's wrong. You can't separate bad ideas from bad behaviour, no matter how hard you try. Actually sanity and rationality separate bad ideas from bad behavior. If you read that book, are you going to starve or freeze a kid to death? Even if you think about it, or begin to execute it, as the child slowly wastes away you would have empathy for them and stop at some point before their death. Sociopaths do not have empathy for others among other things. Additionally, they are not actually insane. They adopted children for this. They were strict with their biologicals but did not go to these sadist extremes, plus the husband turned on the wife when the reality of getting caught hit home. Their crazy, sociopathic, sadist, but not "insane." The book is distasteful, but you can't blame the book for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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