The woman, Aracely Meza, whom Texas incorporation records list as the secretary of Congregacional Pueblo de Dios in the town of Balch Springs, was charged with injury to a child by omission, police told NBCDFW. The station reported that Meza was not the child's mother.
According to a request for a search warrant filed March 26, Balch Springs police got an anonymous tip the same day that a child had died at the church on March 21 or 22 without anybody's having reported it.
A witness described only as someone living at the church building told investigators that a "rising ceremony" was held March 22 "to attempt to resurrect Victim from the dead." When that failed, the child was wrapped in a blanket and "taken back to Mexico," according to the search warrant request.
As troubling as that is it is not the worst part.
This according to Raw Story:
A woman who knew the boy’s mother said pastors believed the child was possessed by demons, and she said the boy went 25 days without food before he died.
Raw Story also has video of a news report with footage of the attempted resurrection.
It is highly disturbing and demonstrates the kind of bizarre mindset that comes from a fervent belief in superstitious nonsense.
These people killed this child, and they did because they grew up around and were deeply affected by primitive bullshit.
OMFG! No words.
ReplyDeleteThat poor baby.... these people should not be allowed to breed.
That poor baby...
Why wasn't the mother charge with murder? If the baby was a "fetus" she would of been? Just shows the cray-cray of TX!! Fetus=murder charges
baby=death by "omission" whatever that means?
What a totally fucked up state....
That's what she has been charged with so far. She will not get off lightly. Expect to see this freak on death row in a year.
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A tremendous amount of crazy happens in Texas and while this happened in Texas, it could have happened in any state where ignorant, superstitious people congregate.
Adult members of the entire congregation should be charged with murder. And colossal stupidity.
Maybe the baby was just colicky. This is murder, plain and simple. And all church members(cult members) are complicit. Charge every damn one of them with murder. Then starve them. This makes me sick. Religion? Ain't it wonderful...
ReplyDeleteBabies are like cats and dogs...if they don't like you you'll know it..
DeleteHe hit his terrible twos and they diagnosed possessed by a demon.
DeleteIgnorant, superstitious and religious. A combination you can't fix.
The whole damn church knew this was happening and not one person called the police, not one. They all knew, they all should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder. This poor child starved to death, a long painful death and not one adult that knew this was happening did anything because "religion". I am so disgusted that I am ready to throw up.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a freedom of religion issue to me--stop persecuting those poor people!
ReplyDeleteI keep sayin: belief in nonsense is NOT harmless.
ReplyDeletePeople have the right to remain stupid. People have the right to reject anything that will interfere with their ignorance. People have the right to reject scientific knowledge including medical knowledge or to reject even the messages that their body is sending to them such as hunger pains are an indication they need fuc_ing food. People do NOT have the right to inflict their ignorance and superstitions on other people especially on children and babies even if they are their own children. People have the right to believe anyone can be possessed by demons but they do NOT have the right to inflict injury on another person to rid them of their demons. People also have the right to pull their head out of their ass because they will be held responsible if your beliefs cause harm to any other people including your own children. Good luck with those prayers.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the poor baby had a seizure disorder. In the dark ages and middle ages, epileptics were thought to be possesed by the devil . Before we had , you know, science and medicine stuff.
ReplyDeleteSome people are literally living in the dark ages.
I' m so sorry innocent baby. So sorry. I know you suffered. Hopefully those responsible will never hurt another living thing.
This story made me ill...literally. I can only imagine how this poor little one suffered. I'm tuning out of all news for awhile. It's just not good.
ReplyDeleteYou mean resurrection didn't work? But they rilly, rilly believed!
ReplyDeleteRot in jail, everyone complicit in this heinous crime.
Pull their tax exemption, jail the whole "congregation" and make an example of them during sentencing.
ReplyDelete"Anything can happen when human beings allow ideology to trump their humanity, when they elevate an idea above the lives of individuals." So said Anna Quindlen in her first Newsweek column after 9/11, and here we find it true again whether it takes the lives of 3,000 or just one. No need for hijacked airplanes or Islamic extremists.
ReplyDeleteNot a month ago you had a story about forced enemas on kids, their parents convinced to flush the devil out of them, and in a country where cops can murder unarmed citizens with impunity and the most addle-brained idiots are considered viable GOP candidates, the shock is that a story like this is of such reduced quantity of shock. We know, don't we, they'll be another as horrid or worse before another month?
I wonder how many murderers have pro life bumper stickers on their South Korean import cars? That poor baby never stood a chance. A similar thing happened here several years ago, and the parents were trying to plea insanity to get out of life in prison. They heard voices and could only attribute it to god. Then they threw some shade on the judge when he gave them life without parole, not too smart.
ReplyDeleteObama wants yet another amnesty to legalize multi-millions of these folks. So does senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.
ReplyDeleteThe USA is doomed.