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A couple has been charged with murder after a 6-year-old child was found badly beaten and stabbed in their motel room, an apparent victim of an exorcism...
Posted by spatula on Jan. 20, 2004 08:51 UTC
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Christopher Carey and Valerie Carey have been charged with the murder of a six-year-old child who was found badly beaten, strangled and stabbed in their motel room, an apparent victim of an exorcism ritual.

Police were alerted to trouble when the couple and two of their children were seen wandering the streets nude in near-freezing temperatures in the middle of the night.

The police determined after interviewing the couple that they were staying at a downtown motel. Upon arriving they found pages ripped out of the Bible strewn on the floor and the partially-covered body of a six-year-old girl. The two surviving children were taken into state care.

The couple had apparently been receiving assistance from a number of local charities and churches before going batshit insane.

---Nick

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Posted by jtdarby from KY on Jan. 20, 2004 09:11

Those poor children.

thorswitch: No doubt. Aside from the outrage I feel as the sheer enormity of this tragedy,...

Posted by Lois Carmen De Nominator from Milwaukee, WI on Jan. 20, 2004 09:14

I wonder if one of Bush's "faith-based" initiatives is responsible for their batshit insanity. I've always wondered why people who obviously have no love for children go out and produce so many of them, but when you're that nuts I guess it passes understanding.

nycMoron: Because it doesn't matter how bad of a state you're in, it's always better to...

psychojosh13: it's not that they didn't want the kids, it's that they loved the child so much...

Posted by h_ank from Portland, Oregon, USA on Jan. 20, 2004 09:14

I want to know how much the churches helped them come to the conclusion an exorcism was required. Not that all churches would do such a thing, many just want to help people, but some I've been to are just.... scary.

Posted by Jake Wilhite from Alabama on Jan. 20, 2004 09:18

No words could describe the anger I'm feeling.

Execution is far too good for these people.

BluJayLax: Fine. With a doctor and med team standing by, torture the bastards for a few...

Jake Wilhite: I take what I said back. If you crush them with the 2-ton 10 commandments...

Pansy Bedwetter: Thal shalt not judge. The judge decides the penalty. And only those beings with...

Posted by Mad Puppet from central Texas on Jan. 20, 2004 09:29

Dig them fine X-tian values. Murder your children, for the children.

Smeg: Praise the Lord, under God... "We were abusing our child in the name of...

Posted by Kenster999 on Jan. 20, 2004 09:40

<BlackHumor>

Hey, it worked, didn't it?

</BlackHumor>

Possibly a Bedwetter, Not a Pansy: Am I bad for laughing at that? Oh well, I already knew I was going to hell if...

Posted by jnelso99 on Jan. 20, 2004 11:15

Since when is STABBING part of an exorcism ritual? Are they seriously thinking that even if the kid dies, it's worth it that the demons get out of her?

Oh wait, that probably IS what they're thinking.

Posted by therlin on Jan. 20, 2004 11:57

Unfortunately, this happens every year.

Posted by Marduk from NYC on Jan. 20, 2004 12:25

You guys don't get it! It's a no lose situation - if the exorcism works, great! If the kid dies, hey no big whoop - they're with Jesus now! So that little kid is probably better off anyway! Hallefuckinglujah!

psychojosh13: in all seriousness, the kid probably is better off being dead than having to...

Posted by Robguy from Madison, WI on Jan. 20, 2004 12:33

Is it just me or do a lot more children die each year from exorcisms than die from demonic possessions?

Confused: So far: Exorcisms: 1 Demonic Possessions: 0.

Posted by Doozer from Fair Oaks, CA on Jan. 20, 2004 14:21

Yeah, because obviously this is exactly what God would want a loving family to do to their children.

Asshats.

Posted by Reynard on Jan. 20, 2004 14:38

"Suffer the little children to come unto me..." (Mark 10:14)

Too bad that kid's God-crazed Fundie idiot "parents" choose to take the above literally...

Posted by kemosabe on Jan. 20, 2004 15:07

"The couple had apparently been receiving assistance from a number of local charities and churches before going batshit insane."

There's a good chance they were batshit insane long before this incident transpired.

kemosabe

Posted by JT from NoVA for now on Jan. 20, 2004 15:48

The 2-year-old boy and 7-year-old girl did not appear to be physically harmed, said Quigley. "I would be concerned about what the 7-year-old witnessed," he added.

I think I would be inclined to worry about what the 2 year old witnessed as well.

Thorswitch: With any luck, the 2 year old is young enough that s/he won't remember what...

nadi: I beg to differ. A child that young *may* have no active memory, or they might;...

MoMom: They might not remember exact things but they do remember feelings and...

Thorswitch: Thank you both for the correction.

Posted by Burn Bush on Jan. 20, 2004 17:22

This has happened a few times in the last couple of years in north america...much more often in other parts of the world (evil spirits, demons, whatever other dumb shit people with low IQs think is real - family members either kill or mutilate to "get the evil out"). I kind of wish it wasn't a kid that died so I could actually laugh at the whole thing...meh.

Posted by joeflood from Fundiesville, MS on Jan. 20, 2004 18:05

But... but... it delivered the girl from the grip of SATAN so it was perfectly alright.

Stamp out religous fanatacism... for the children.

Posted by splorp! from Milky Way on Jan. 20, 2004 18:58

It's hard to believe stuff like this happens outside a third world country...

splorp!

Evil Bastard

Burn Bush: Such people DO seem to be stuck thinking like an average european of dark ages...

Posted by Shadowen from West Nowhere, MB on Jan. 21, 2004 24:19

This is why I don't like religion.

Not the generally good people, not hate groups like the AFA, not even assholes like Pat Robertson who are more hypocritical than the Pharisees in the New Testament.

It's when people with fragile minds get touched by religion that we see people go this flat-out, bullmoose crazy.

Posted by Tigerhawk71 from Planet Earth on Jan. 21, 2004 02:07

*hands spiked bats and crowbars to everyone*

anybody know where they are? lets go give them the kind of "exorcise" they deserve... okay, bad joke.

GWTPict: But completely understandable.