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New York were arrested Monday after a man
died following a severe beating during a "counseling
session.." CBS News reports. Among the arrested were the
victim' s mother, father, and sister. His brother
had also been beaten and is in serious condition. According
to CNN, members of the Word of Life Christian Church
brought Lucas Leonard to the hospital Monday where he
was pronounced dead. A SWAT team entered the church
Monday, finding his injured brother and handing over
several other children to protective services. CBS reports
the victims suffered hours of physical punishment Sunday
nig ht during "counseling" meant to get them to confess their
sins and ask forgiveness. Police say Leonard "died a violent
death over several hours."
Leonard' s parents Bruce and Deborah Leonard were
charged with manslaughter, CNN reports. The other four
church members were charged with felony assault. All six
pleaded not guilty, according to CBS. Police expect more
anuses to come. Neighbors tell the Syracuse
Word of Life is a cult where members are only seen after
aam and strange chants can be heard coming from inside
the building. CNN reports a pastor at a
neighboring Catholic church describes Word of Life as
certainly not a mainline church" and said very little is known
about it or its members.
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#2 - friedpotatoes (10/16/2015) [-]
> "Counselling"
> Actually beating their asses to get them to confess
> WTF is this, the Spanish inquisition?
User avatar #17 to #2 - Nor (10/17/2015) [-]
Well nobody would expect it if it were the Spanish Inquisition No one expects the Spanish Inquisition
#8 to #2 - anon (10/16/2015) [-]
it depends, only if they were given a months notice before they were taken. The Spanish inquisition actually sent a notice to the people accused to give them time to gather evidence and witnesses to testify on their behalf, fleeing was seen as a confession of guilt... so... what this boils down to is this church is worse than the Spanish inquisition.
User avatar #4 - turkeyslapper (10/16/2015) [-]
My parents to go a church which experts consider a cult, its not as bad as this but yeh, there's churches which do some pretty ****** questionable things and its all kept under wraps. Its a shame someone has to get ****** up before anyone can do anything to stop them.
#1 - berengar (10/16/2015) [-]
As a semi-religious individual, I really dislike these kinds of people.
#3 to #1 - holdup (10/16/2015) [-]
they are worse than this type of asshole here, sure, the dude wants to kill you but he won't tell you it's good for you.
#5 - alfrsa (10/16/2015) [-]
Knowing their parents also participated makes me feel even more miserable about this
User avatar #9 - awesomedewd (10/16/2015) [-]
> manslaughter
Are you ******* ******** me?
That's ******* murder, no matter how you look at it.
User avatar #11 to #9 - unladenswallow (10/16/2015) [-]
Yeah, but these people are severely retarded and deluded. It wouldn't be right to treat expect them to behave like human beings. That said, I think everyone involved should be quickly and cheaply executed.
#15 to #11 - anon (10/17/2015) [-]
9mm cost around 30 cents
User avatar #12 - alimais ONLINE (10/16/2015) [-]
Sounds like the honor killings muslims in Europe do
User avatar #16 - deviousmrtaco (10/17/2015) [-]
No joke my friends who are in school to be nurses treated those kids that got beat, It happened right by my school in New Hartford by Utica, they were sent to st E's hospital. They were in bad shape
#14 - anon (10/17/2015) [-]
what i would have gave to have been on that SWAT team....
User avatar #13 - cuntism (10/17/2015) [-]
Bet he was gay, or they thought he was gay. This is...not common, but not really all that uncommon, it's such a shame
#18 to #13 - anon (10/17/2015) [-]
he was molesting children.
User avatar #19 to #18 - cuntism (10/17/2015) [-]
WUT
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