preacher gets sentence for child abuse

Demons? Wow that whole story is disturbing, but perhaps the most disturbing is that the preacher believed it was God's will the child die, was he even remorseful?

I can't get with the whole demons fantasy to start with.

Yeah I believe in demons But I think this guy got what he deserves. Just cause you think that a child is demon posessed is no reason to pin him to the floor and suffocate him. You can get him an exorcist or phychiatric help........

I saw an episode of CSI the other nite where a Dr. had done this with a boys mother to try to get him to overcome seizures he was having. I thought it was very disturbing then and I think this is even more so. He needs to take full responsibility for his actions and take the punishment for it.

I'ddie4him said:

I saw an episode of CSI the other nite where a Dr. had done this with a boys mother to try to get him to overcome seizures he was having. I thought it was very disturbing then and I think this is even more so. He needs to take full responsibility for his actions and take the punishment for it.

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I've also seen on TV, supposedly therapeutic or remedial approaches to ADD and autistic children, which were very assertive and restraining, suppressing the child's own perspective: which extended to reccomending parents go in for whole body pinning down; in order to get the child to learn to accept authority.

I haven't read any origonal material on this case: and I know that religious groups often have their own traditions in such cases; but there has been a worrying trend in child care, on both sides of the Atlantic, away from negotiation and being led by the child; to a behavioural approach of constraining the child within a collective authority, and a willingness to resort to physical constraint very on in the process.

So, yes, this man failed this child, tragically so: but our general approaches to child care might have not been doing enough to educate that we must work with the child, and not impose our will through power.