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Date Posted: 06:04:25 08/26/03 Tue
Author: Sister Regina Dentata
Subject: Outside of Catholicism, children are tormented in other ways...
In reply to: SM78 's message, "Karma gets a bad priest" on 18:03:55 08/25/03 Mon

As demonstrated by the following story:

Autistic Boy Dies at Wis. Prayer Service
Mon Aug 25, 8:23 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo!

By MELISSA McCORD, Associated Press Writer

MILWAUKEE - An autistic 8-year-old boy died while wrapped in sheets during a prayer service held to exorcise the evil spirits that church members blamed for his condition.

A man has been arrested in connection with the death, which occurred Friday night at a church in a run-down strip mall. Authorities have not identified the man or disclosed what charges he could face.

The mother had been taking her son to Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith three times a week for the last three weeks in hopes of curing his autism, said Bishop David Hemphill Sr.

It was after more than an hour of prayer that a parishioner noticed the boy was no longer moving and called emergency workers, Hemphill said. The boy's grandmother said force was used, an allegation disputed by church members.

"We were asking God to take this spirit that was tormenting this little boy to death," Hemphill said. "We were praying that hard, but not to kill."

"We weren't praying to kill him?" WTF?

Hemphill identified the boy as Torrance Cantrell and the man arrested as Ray Hemphill, his brother and another minister who led Friday's service. David Hemphill said he has not talked to his brother or the boy's mother, Patricia Cooper, since Friday night. Cooper could not be reached for comment.

Police have not released the boy's name but have said they don't believe he was struck. The results of an autopsy also have not been disclosed.

Church members had wrapped the boy in sheets to keep him from scratching himself and others, but he was allowed to sit "any way that he feels comfortable," Hemphill said.

The boy's grandmother said the boy had been restrained.

"They held the boy down, they held him down until ... he went to a smothery grave," Mary Luckett told Milwaukee television station WTMJ.

David Hemphill started the independent church in 1997. It meets twice a week and has a congregation of six families.

Cooper, the boy's mother, started coming to the church about three months ago after she met a parishioner at a doctor's office, Hemphill said. Cooper told the parishioner about her son's autism, and the church member invited her to a Sunday service. She joined the next week.

A makeshift memorial with four colored candles and a few stuffed animals sat on a window ledge outside the boy's Home Sunday.

Associated Press writer Kevin Orland contributed to this report.

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The world seems to be overrun by more and more people who seem to be operating under the premise that "The Enlightenment was too haaarrd, let's go back to groveling before invisible monsters in the sky!"

With regards to Mr. Geoghan, ending up as compost will probably the first useful thing he has done in his life. I really feel bad for those of his victims that feel a twinge of responsibility for his death. Ain't Catholic guilt grand?

My only concern about the geoghan murder is the fact that right now it isn't clear if guards were just looking the other way, or if the fact that Druce was able to operate due to guards streched out too thin. I say this not as pro-molester, but out of concern that if a prisoner could jump another prisoner, is it a sign that a prisoner could soon jump a guard, or a memeber of prison staff.

You see, my dad works as a drug counselor in the DOC of PA, and a great many states are responding to strained budgets by cutting back on the number of guards in prisons. They seem to be operating under the presumption that they are simply depriving criminals an indulgence when thay are actually making things more dangerous for the law-abiding folks that work there. Dad's 54, and while he is a pro at grabbing a hold of nerve points on an opponent (he is still able to make my 6' 2" brother yelp when he is silly enough to wrassle Dad) he is approaching Old Guy status.

Still, I have a hard time feeling bad when a weaselly sociopath like Geoghan is killed by a rampaging neo-nazi jumps up and down on his chest. It sounds like death hurt, which it should have.

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  • you remind me of Rush -- Hugh Danig, 20:01:25 08/26/03 Tue
  • Who's your other conversation with? Jesus? -- Queer, 00:38:48 08/27/03 Wed
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