Last moments of toddler killed in San Joe 'exorcism' revealed
www.dailymail.co.uk
Two years after her body was found by police on the altar of a Pentecostal church in San Jose, California , authorities have still to decide whether her killers will stand trial.
  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    77·
    2 months ago

    Two years after her body was found by police on the altar of a Pentecostal church in San Jose, California, authorities have still to decide whether her killers will stand trial.

    Yo what the fuck? This should have been an easy-ass decision.

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          So are you saying we shouldn’t hold the religious people accountable for murdering a child?

          • Railing5132@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I’m pretty sure the first paragraph is /s material while (at least the second half of) the second paragraph is straight-up facts.

            • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Practicing as they wish resulted in the death of a child. How far are we going to let religious freedom trump law?

              • Railing5132@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Maybe I cometely missed the tone in the post referenced. I genuinely thought OP was sarcastically explaining the origin of acceptance of extremism in US religion. Loss of context in the limited medium of text.

                Make no mistake - these people are fucked in the head, should be tried (the right to a speedy trial should have been applied years ago), and when (hopefully) convicted, should get absolutely nuked from orbit.

                Anyone’s claim to practice religion (which doesn’t include child abuse, human abuse, animal abuse, or fucking murder) or to not is their business - until they force that with harm on another. (with the understanding that parents brainwashing their kids is currently acceptable, and my biases are my own). Kind of a: “your right to swing your fist ends where my face begins” thing.

                So, to summarize: while I don’t necessarily agree with prison violence and ‘eye-for-an-eye’ justice, these people can get fucked with a rake. And my heart weeps for that dear child.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    2 months ago

    You know, some day extreme religious belief will be classified as a mental illness. I hope I live to see it.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There’s another option, which is that the extreme doomsday beliefs become a self-fulfilling prophecy and no one lives to see it classified as a mental illness outside of the momentary ‘oops’ when things are crashing down all around and no dead bodies come floating down from the sky to stop it.

      I think about Popper’s paradox more and more these days.

  • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    29·
    2 months ago

    D&D sparked satanic panic that had a body count and this shit gets ignored for years?

        • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          I love that you had a straight answer for this. 🤣

          Also, excellent clip sir.

        • Reddfugee42@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Yeah, all the witch trials and Catholic occult bullshit in history seems to be pretty mild and rational.

          • Spacehooks@reddthat.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Not defending any of this madness but inquisition and such is not really about “cleaning” the posessed body. It’s more punishment chosing the wrong path. Doubt They planned on rehabilitation in this lifetime anyway. Not sure wtf these people were on that they went so far on child. I was a bad child. mom said I was highly destructive and she had to tie me up most of the time. Bet if I had these parents I’d be dead right now.

  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    I sincerely wish her mother a long, pain-filled tortured life of agony. The only thing more painful than her existence should be the next part of her existence.

    And that’s the hugely censored version. Current law does not have a bad enough penalty. Throw her to alQaeda and let them have her.

  • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Some days I wish the Rapture really will happen just so these fucking trogs finally leave us alone and we don’t have to deal with them anymore. Religion brings the worst out of people.

    • Rin@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      Nah, if the rapture happens they probably won’t be a part of it, considering how they only follow the bible when it directly benefits either them or whatever leader they’re following.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    2 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    A little girl told her mother 'I love you’ in an attempt to stop the woman torturing her to death in a day-long church ‘exorcism’, newly released court documents reveal.

    Three-year-old Arely Proctor pleaded for her life and struggled to escape as she was battered and strangled by her mother Claudia Hernandez, 27, and her pastor relatives.

    Two years after her body was found by police on the altar of a Pentecostal church in San Jose, California, authorities have still to decide whether her killers will stand trial.

    ‘Over the course of approximately twenty hours Arely Doe fought for her life as three trusted adults forcibly grabbed her by the neck,’ Deputy District Attorney Rebekah Wise wrote.

    'If you read the Bible, you’ll see that Jesus casts away demons and made sick people healthy again,’ he later told Mercury News.

    Wise filed her memorandum on April 3 to Santa Clara County Court where Judge Hanley Chew will make a ruling on May 10 as to whether there is enough evidence for a trial.

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