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‘Spiritual delusion’ leads to death of Amish father, 4-year-old son at Atwood Lake, police say

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An Amish father in Ohio and his 4-year-old son are now dead following a deluded attempt by him and his wife to “prove their worthiness to God,” authorities say.

In a case of what authorities in Tuscarawas County have called a “spiritual delusion,” police said 45-year-old Marcus Miller and his 4-year-old son, Vincen Miller, are now dead, according to Fox 8.

Sheriff Orvis L. Campbell of the Tuscarawas County Sheriff's Office said that at about 10:39 a.m. Saturday, they responded to an incident at Atwood Lake where a woman and three of her children — her 15-year-old daughter and her twin 18-year-old sons — crashed a golf cart next to Atwood Marina West.

“After helping the woman out of the water, the woman made concerning statements about conversing with God,” Campbell said in a press statementSaturday. “It was evident that the crash into the water was intentional by the mother.”

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An Amish mother has been formally charged with the drowning of her 4-year-old son at Atwood Lake in Tascarawas County, Ohio, along with domestic violence and child endangerment charges related to her three older children.

The mother, who authorities have identified as 40-year-old Ruth R. Miller, insisted to investigators that she was seeking to obey God when she threw her son, Vincen, off the dock at the lake to give him to God on the morning of Aug. 23.

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