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Christian Homeschooling Parents Abused, Starved And Imprisoned Child Because God
On Tuesday, the adopted daughter of a Butler County, Georgia couple testified about the horrific abuse she endured during the six years she spent in the custody of Diana and Samuel Franklin.
The victim, whose name has not been released to the press, was adopted by the couple at the age of nine. She did not attend public school, but was ‘homeschooled’ by the couple, under the state of Georgia’s very lax homeschooling laws.
WTVM reports:
“The young woman detailed how she was starved, eventually leading to her resorting to dog food and scraps from a compost containing chicken waste to fight the hunger. She detailed how the unsanitary food made her physically sick.”
According to a neighbor, who spoke with the press shortly after the girl was removed from the Franklins’ custody, the couple withheld food from their adopted daughter based on their interpretation of 2 Thessalonians 3:10, which says in part, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
According to WTVM:
“Neighbors also said this mom would only feed her daughter bread and water as punishment for days on end.
The neighbors asked why, and they say Diana Franklin would tell them she was only doing what the Bible says.
A neighbor told us that one day the Franklins’ daughter walked over to her house, knocked on the door and said ‘Please help me. I haven’t eaten in three days.’
The woman said she began to cook for the girl but was interrupted when Diana Franklin grabbed the girl and according to the neighbor yelled, ‘You can’t eat if you don’t work’.”
Another neighbor, Steven Balis, told WTVM that he had witnessed the girl being forced to dig ditches and haul rocks “in the hot sun with two or three older boys watching her. She looked like she was in rough shape.”
The Franklins have three biological sons, all adults. They were investigated, but not charged, in the case.
During her testimony, the victim described being locked in various outbuildings on the family’s property when she was menstruating. She was allowed to wear only a shirt, and no under garments during this time.
This horrific treatment was undoubtedly based on Leviticus Chapter 15, which says:
“And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.”
The girl described being locked in a hot shed for a week at a time as ‘punishment,’ for various offenses, including not “doing her work right.”
She was also locked inside a tiny outhouse for days at a time. According to authorities the structure was about four foot wide by four foot high, “just big enough to sit in.”
The Franklins also locked the naked girl in a chicken coop in “both hot and cold weather.”
In court, the victim described one incident when her adoptive mother forced her to stay in the chicken coop, telling the jury,
“She said I better be thankful for what I have, and I told her I don’t have anything, and she’s like ‘you have the clothes on your back’ and I said that’s all I have, and she got mad and told me to take it off in the yard and walk to the chicken coop.”
The girl described using a paper bag to try to keep warm while locked in the chicken coop.
Police confiscated a dog collar from the home, which they say the couple used to shock the girl, along with a leather belt which was used to beat her.
According to WTVM, Diana Franklin used a Bible verse found in Proverbs 13:24:
“He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes,” to justify horrific child abuse.
The girl was found in 2012, by Child Protective Service workers, who were acting on an anonymous tip. According to WRBL, the caller reported that a 15-year-old girl was being held in a padlocked shed on the property in rural Georgia.
When social workers arrived they found the girl walking behind the shed, carrying a white bowl. The bowl turned out to be a “chamber pot” which she used to “relieve herself” while locked in the shed.
The Franklins claimed that the shed was the girl’s room. They told child protection workers that they didn’t have room inside the house for their adopted daughter, so they made a “room,” in the shed. They claimed that locking her in the shed was the same as “sending her to room,” just like other parents do.
The Ledger-Enquirer reports that the shed had little ventilation, and that there were items such as propane and pesticides stored inside of the building where the girl was being held.
“The girl’s ‘room’ had a concrete floor, a single twin-sized bed, a work table and a bench for lifting weights. The room had a window and a fan that wasn’t running, and no air stirred to relieve the stifling heat” a social worker testified. “The temperature was in the 90s outside, and worse inside the shed.” She went on to say that the structure “reeked of fumes.”
On cross examination, Diana Franklin’s lawyer asked the social worker if it’s common for people to keep pesticides and other chemicals in a shed outside.
“Yes, but they don’t keep kids with it,” she responded.
Although it was 4:00 in the afternoon when social services arrived, Diana Franklin admitted that the girl had not eaten since the previous morning at 9:00 am. According to a deputy, who also testified on Tuesday, the Franklin’s saw nothing wrong with withholding food from the girl as a form of punishment.
The Franklins’ attorney claims that his clients are “good people.” He describes them as “a loving family, a family of deep religious faith.”
In October, Addicting Info’s Shannon Barber reported on the death of a 19-year-old boy in New Hartford, New York. Lucas Leonard was beaten to death inside a church by his parents and other church members, who believed that the teen wasn’t properly confessing his sins.
In August, this psycho attempted to use the Bible to defend sexual abuse of children, claiming that he has the right to sexually assault children as young as five-years-old because “the Bible doesn’t set age limits.”
Not long before that, Addicting Info reported on the horrific child abuse that took place inside a Christian “breeder-cult” in Tacoma, Washington. The children told investigators they were “beaten with bats, locked in the bathroom or attic for days at a time, deprived of food and routinely sexually abused.” The leader of the cult, Melford Warren, kept a journal in which he “took notes” regarding his sexual assault of the children.
The examples of people committing horrible crimes in the name of religion go on and on.
Were all of these people acting on their “sincerely held religious beliefs?” You know it.
Throughout history, people have “sincerely believed” in doing all kinds of horrible things in the name of all sorts of Gods, from child sacrifice to burning people at the stake. That’s precisely why we cannot allow our laws to be guided by anyone’s “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
You might sincerely believe that “those who don’t work shouldn’t eat.” That does not mean that our society has to cater to that and allow to starve people. You might sincerely believe that if you “spare the rod” you will “spoil the child.” That does not mean that our society has to let you get away with beating kids to death in church.
Diana Franklin’s trial continues this week, while her husband’s trial is set to begin in December.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/1...arved-and-imprisoned-child-because-god-video/
Christian Homeschooling Parents Abused, Starved And Imprisoned Child Because God
On Tuesday, the adopted daughter of a Butler County, Georgia couple testified about the horrific abuse she endured during the six years she spent in the custody of Diana and Samuel Franklin.
The victim, whose name has not been released to the press, was adopted by the couple at the age of nine. She did not attend public school, but was ‘homeschooled’ by the couple, under the state of Georgia’s very lax homeschooling laws.
WTVM reports:
“The young woman detailed how she was starved, eventually leading to her resorting to dog food and scraps from a compost containing chicken waste to fight the hunger. She detailed how the unsanitary food made her physically sick.”
According to a neighbor, who spoke with the press shortly after the girl was removed from the Franklins’ custody, the couple withheld food from their adopted daughter based on their interpretation of 2 Thessalonians 3:10, which says in part, “If a man will not work, he shall not eat.”
According to WTVM:
“Neighbors also said this mom would only feed her daughter bread and water as punishment for days on end.
The neighbors asked why, and they say Diana Franklin would tell them she was only doing what the Bible says.
A neighbor told us that one day the Franklins’ daughter walked over to her house, knocked on the door and said ‘Please help me. I haven’t eaten in three days.’
The woman said she began to cook for the girl but was interrupted when Diana Franklin grabbed the girl and according to the neighbor yelled, ‘You can’t eat if you don’t work’.”
Another neighbor, Steven Balis, told WTVM that he had witnessed the girl being forced to dig ditches and haul rocks “in the hot sun with two or three older boys watching her. She looked like she was in rough shape.”
The Franklins have three biological sons, all adults. They were investigated, but not charged, in the case.
During her testimony, the victim described being locked in various outbuildings on the family’s property when she was menstruating. She was allowed to wear only a shirt, and no under garments during this time.
This horrific treatment was undoubtedly based on Leviticus Chapter 15, which says:
“And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be put apart seven days: and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even. And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean: every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean.”
The girl described being locked in a hot shed for a week at a time as ‘punishment,’ for various offenses, including not “doing her work right.”
She was also locked inside a tiny outhouse for days at a time. According to authorities the structure was about four foot wide by four foot high, “just big enough to sit in.”
The Franklins also locked the naked girl in a chicken coop in “both hot and cold weather.”
In court, the victim described one incident when her adoptive mother forced her to stay in the chicken coop, telling the jury,
“She said I better be thankful for what I have, and I told her I don’t have anything, and she’s like ‘you have the clothes on your back’ and I said that’s all I have, and she got mad and told me to take it off in the yard and walk to the chicken coop.”
The girl described using a paper bag to try to keep warm while locked in the chicken coop.
Police confiscated a dog collar from the home, which they say the couple used to shock the girl, along with a leather belt which was used to beat her.
According to WTVM, Diana Franklin used a Bible verse found in Proverbs 13:24:
“He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes,” to justify horrific child abuse.
The girl was found in 2012, by Child Protective Service workers, who were acting on an anonymous tip. According to WRBL, the caller reported that a 15-year-old girl was being held in a padlocked shed on the property in rural Georgia.
When social workers arrived they found the girl walking behind the shed, carrying a white bowl. The bowl turned out to be a “chamber pot” which she used to “relieve herself” while locked in the shed.
The Franklins claimed that the shed was the girl’s room. They told child protection workers that they didn’t have room inside the house for their adopted daughter, so they made a “room,” in the shed. They claimed that locking her in the shed was the same as “sending her to room,” just like other parents do.
The Ledger-Enquirer reports that the shed had little ventilation, and that there were items such as propane and pesticides stored inside of the building where the girl was being held.
“The girl’s ‘room’ had a concrete floor, a single twin-sized bed, a work table and a bench for lifting weights. The room had a window and a fan that wasn’t running, and no air stirred to relieve the stifling heat” a social worker testified. “The temperature was in the 90s outside, and worse inside the shed.” She went on to say that the structure “reeked of fumes.”
On cross examination, Diana Franklin’s lawyer asked the social worker if it’s common for people to keep pesticides and other chemicals in a shed outside.
“Yes, but they don’t keep kids with it,” she responded.
Although it was 4:00 in the afternoon when social services arrived, Diana Franklin admitted that the girl had not eaten since the previous morning at 9:00 am. According to a deputy, who also testified on Tuesday, the Franklin’s saw nothing wrong with withholding food from the girl as a form of punishment.
The Franklins’ attorney claims that his clients are “good people.” He describes them as “a loving family, a family of deep religious faith.”
In October, Addicting Info’s Shannon Barber reported on the death of a 19-year-old boy in New Hartford, New York. Lucas Leonard was beaten to death inside a church by his parents and other church members, who believed that the teen wasn’t properly confessing his sins.
In August, this psycho attempted to use the Bible to defend sexual abuse of children, claiming that he has the right to sexually assault children as young as five-years-old because “the Bible doesn’t set age limits.”
Not long before that, Addicting Info reported on the horrific child abuse that took place inside a Christian “breeder-cult” in Tacoma, Washington. The children told investigators they were “beaten with bats, locked in the bathroom or attic for days at a time, deprived of food and routinely sexually abused.” The leader of the cult, Melford Warren, kept a journal in which he “took notes” regarding his sexual assault of the children.
The examples of people committing horrible crimes in the name of religion go on and on.
Were all of these people acting on their “sincerely held religious beliefs?” You know it.
Throughout history, people have “sincerely believed” in doing all kinds of horrible things in the name of all sorts of Gods, from child sacrifice to burning people at the stake. That’s precisely why we cannot allow our laws to be guided by anyone’s “sincerely held religious beliefs.”
You might sincerely believe that “those who don’t work shouldn’t eat.” That does not mean that our society has to cater to that and allow to starve people. You might sincerely believe that if you “spare the rod” you will “spoil the child.” That does not mean that our society has to let you get away with beating kids to death in church.
Diana Franklin’s trial continues this week, while her husband’s trial is set to begin in December.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/1...arved-and-imprisoned-child-because-god-video/
