Michael Pearl, "To Train Up A Child", and Corporal Punishment

[countryjake]

39. During the struggle to get Skagit Co. to look into the brutal death of Hana Alemu...

(I simply refuse to disgrace her with that label of "Williams", the name of her adoptive murderers.), it was discovered that there are a goodly number of parents in the area who also promote, sell, and strongly advocate such methods found within "To Train Up A Child" as the preferred handbook to break the spirit of what many fundamentalists describe as "rebellious" children. The Pearls' book reads like a guide-to-abuse manual...how to effectively physically and mentally torture a child without getting caught.

There were a total of nine children in the home where little Hana was tortured to death, she and the other little boy who was also adopted from Ethiopia and seven biological Williams kids. On the cold rainy day that Hana died in the backyard of the Williams property, two of the older sons had earlier been sent outdoors with that "plumbing rod" to force her into submission, by their mother, Carri Williams.

Even up to the final minutes when the body of Hana Alemu was eventually taken away from those private, idyllic acres of Sedro-Woolley, that woman thought that her method of dealing with an orphan isolated in a strange land, a defenseless 13 year old girl, was the fitting and proper way to direct a "difficult" child onto a path of godly righteousness...that it was her right as a "mother" to brutally strip another person of both her dignity and her self-worth.

I've posted about Hana's torture and murder here at DU before and also the need to condemn those barbaric Pearl "discipline" practices which are still popular and continually defended by so many in our nation.


Hana's Story By Kathryn Joyce ~ Nov. 9 2013
An adoptee's tragic fate, and how it could happen again.

http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/11/hana_williams_the_tragic_death_of_an_ethiopian_adoptee_and_how_it_could.html


Hana Alemu: We Will Not Forget by ellecuardaigh

http://ellecuardaigh.com/2014/04/06/hana-alemu-we-will-not-forget/


Death of little Hana Williams linked to "To Train Up a Child"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2040158