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A Wisconsin teen was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the 2018 death of his 7-year-old relative, Ethan Hauschultz, who prosecutors say was beaten and tortured for not knowing Bible verses. Damian Hauschultz, now 17, pleaded guilty in June to one count of first-degree reckless homicide, court records show.
Hauschultz's father told him to punish the child because the child did not know 13 Bible verses.
Ethan was forced to carry a log around a path for two hours a day for one week while Damian Hauschultz watched. Ethan "struggled to carry his log" and Damian Hauschultz hit, kicked, struck and poked him approximately 100 times, the criminal complaint states.
It goes on to say that Damian Hauschultz stood on Ethan's "body and head" while the boy was "face-down in a puddle." Damian Hauschultz also buried the child in about "80 pounds of packed snow" and left him for about 20 to 30 minutes without a coat or boots, the complaint says. Ethan died of hypothermia but had other extensive injuries, according to the complaint.
Damian Hauschultz's father, Timothy Hauschultz, goes on trial in December on eight charges including felony murder while Damian's mother, Tina McKeever-Hauschultz, was sentenced to five years after pleading guilty for failure to prevent great bodily harm and failing to prevent mental harm to a child.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wisconsin-teen-sentenced-20-years-prison-torture-death-7-year-n1278511
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,865 posts)JanMichael
(24,890 posts)DFW
(54,415 posts)I guess people who thump bibles seem to get their jollies thumping people as well, preferably ones too weak to defend themselves (they apparently aren't courageous enough to try to thump people who are strong enough to thump back).
DFW
(54,415 posts)What permits people to do this to a seven year old child, and think there is nothing horribly wrong with what they were doing?
malaise
(269,094 posts)ignorant, depraved monsters
Dakota Flint
(219 posts)malaise
(269,094 posts)I can't hurt a stray animal - bangs head.
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DFW
(54,415 posts)If any of them came trick-or-treating on Halloween, I would not open the door to the likes of them.
malaise
(269,094 posts)the answer was yes - they look the part. They would not pass my gate.
3catwoman3
(24,016 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)It's beyond words.
marie999
(3,334 posts)Humans are the worse of all animals. We have been torturing people and committing genocide for thousands of years. What makes you think we will ever stop? According to the Bible, 25% of the first people committed murder by killing their brother. If I was God, I would have started over and rested on the sixth day.
IronLionZion
(45,469 posts)and let prison psychiatrists worry about their mindset
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That poor, sweet, innocent little boy. His young life was ended by these evil, hateful "Christians" who wouldn't know what the love of god was if it bit them on the ass.
They should all spend the rest of their lives in prison. They are irredeemable. Nobody with a soul or an ounce of compassion could have participated in such an awful crime.
What I don't understand is why so many "Christians" are so hateful and so filled with bloodlust. It's just seems to be more of a mental illness than a religion to me.
UnderThisLaw
(318 posts)Are we sure this is the familys first murder?
cojoel
(957 posts)or strung out on something
MLAA
(17,302 posts)intheflow
(28,484 posts)The tilt of the head beneath the shoulders could be do to with a curved spine. Maybe also strung out, but that posture is pretty odd.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)StarryNite
(9,454 posts)And only 20 years for what was done to him???
LeftInTX
(25,436 posts)I hope the Damian's father rots in hell......
He's got a charge of felony murder, unfortunately I'm afraid he may get off too easily also.
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)Doubtless he was threatened and indoctrinated himself and manipulated by these awful people Twenty years may give him time to redeem something of his life and learn other values.
The two adults? Nut jobs. Lock them up, throw away the key.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)14 years of torture himself.
If he was 14 when he committed the crime, Im sure the 7 year old wasnt the only child being abused in that family.
Demovictory9
(32,465 posts)ZZenith
(4,125 posts)I hope you knew at least some small portion of joy in your short life.
Dear Heavenly Father, please protect us from your believers.
struggle4progress
(118,314 posts)Hosea 6:6
struggle4progress
(118,314 posts)Leviticus 19:18
struggle4progress
(118,314 posts)Proverbs 10:12
struggle4progress
(118,314 posts)Micah 6:8
struggle4progress
(118,314 posts)Matthew 5: 7
Celerity
(43,454 posts)or slaughtered in countless wars, often in the most fiendish of manners, by the church. They were being 'shown mercy' by ending their lives, so it was claimed.
Often accompanied, from 1486 onward (if one happened to have the misfortune of being labelled a witch, warlock, demon, fae, or some other 'ungodly' creature), by the ranting quotes spewed forth from that insidious book, the Malleus Maleficarum, aka Der Hexenhammer aka The Hammer of the Witches.
struggle4progress
(118,314 posts)I find it in my co-religionists, in my fellow country-men, in my ancestors and relatives, and everywhere else I look (except, of course, when I look in the mirror!)
Take a look at yourself, and you can look at others differently
keithbvadu2
(36,836 posts)Obviously a 7 y/o heathen.
God needs these people to spread his love.
Deuxcents
(16,270 posts)Religion.. over the centuries taken to extreme.. and innocent pay with their life. No thank you.
Buzz cook
(2,473 posts)I can hear every xtian of every stripe saying these people misinterpret scripture or they weren't "real" Christians.
Even if that were true, it was xtianity that gave these people the excuse. There are plenty of bible verses that encourage child torture and murder. There are plenty of modern xtians that take those verses seriously.
Susan Calvin
(1,647 posts)They think doing garbage in this world is okay if it makes things better in the afterlife, which of course doesn't exist.
I haven't had this kind of horrific thing happen to me, of course, but I have been acquainted with many many Christians who said they would do one thing and then did another, because God.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Just a few years back, the Legislature there passed a law (that was signed) that said if a child dies as a result of the parent(s) religious observance, the parents are not liable. Beatings, starving, dehydration, that sort of thing.
That law has not yet been repealed and it's not the only state with such a law on the books.
Moebym
(989 posts)Fewer people than ever before are identifying themselves as religious?
Metro135
(359 posts)Initech
(100,088 posts)bahboo
(16,349 posts)the poor child is the only normal looking one...
GQP forced incest babies, there will many that will look and act like Tina. That family tree is a power pole. Without any wires attached.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Was placed with this family as a foster child.
LiberalFighter
(50,992 posts)1 940.02(1) 1st-Degree Reckless Homicide Felony B Guilty Due to Guilty Plea
2 948.03(2)(b) Child Abuse-Intentionally Cause Harm Felony H Charge Dismissed but Read In
3 940.19(2) Substantial Battery-Intend Bodily Harm Felony I Charge Dismissed but Read In
4 948.03(2)(b) Child Abuse-Intentionally Cause Harm Felony H Charge Dismissed but Read In
5 940.19(2) Substantial Battery-Intend Bodily Harm Felony I Charge Dismissed but Read In
6 948.03(2)(b) Child Abuse-Intentionally Cause Harm Felony H Charge Dismissed but Read In
7 940.19(2) Substantial Battery-Intend Bodily Harm Felony I Charge Dismissed but Read In
cayugafalls
(5,641 posts)Evil fucking monsters.
I am sobbing....damn.
dalton99a
(81,534 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Something about the eyes is disturbing.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)To me, mom and son look like consequences of inbreeding.
The husband is not 17 year old's biological father.
The little boy was placed there as a foster child, being a distant relative of the husband.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)Seems like a rather light sentence under the circumstances.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)He could have been tried at a child, and then let out at 21.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)before getting out of prison.
Good.
IronLionZion
(45,469 posts)Goodheart
(5,334 posts)Blue Owl
(50,448 posts)Fuck them all.
Deep State Witch
(10,438 posts)I'm sure that these Fundies are pro-life. They care about kids before they're born. Afterwards, torture and kill them if they don't comply.
Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)Who submitted this poor defenseless child to these Christians?