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"stoney" |
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13 Nov 2004 11:18:18 PM |
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OT: Couple accused of plotting ‘sacrifice’ of children |
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6477961/
Couple accused of plotting ‘sacrifice’ of children
Woman, her boyfriend turned in by concerned church workers
The Associated Press
Updated: 5:37 p.m. ET Nov. 13, 2004
ROCHESTER, N.H. - A woman and her boyfriend are accused of plotting to
sacrifice the woman’s three children on a church altar.
Nicole Mancini, 29, and John Thurber, 35, were arrested at St. Mary’s
Church on Wednesday after workers said they heard the woman say she
wanted to sacrifice the boys.
“We could tell this woman was not right,” said church secretary Donna
Landolfi. “She said, ‘Let’s go make the sacrifice.”’
Mancini and Thurber were in jail Saturday on more than $25,000 bail.
They were arraigned Friday on three counts each of misdemeanor child
endangerment. Thurber was also charged with marijuana possession.
The children, ages 9, 7 and 2, were not harmed and were placed in
state custody. Police said Thurber is the father of the youngest boy.
Police said Mancini told them that Jesus sacrificed himself for her,
so she was going to sacrifice the boys to free her soul.
“Eighteen years I’ve been doing this and I’ve never come across
anything like it,” police Lt. Paul Callaghan said.
Mancini’s attorney, Kimberly Shoen, said her client meant the children
no harm.
“They were never tied to the altar, there was no blood, there were no
constraints for sacrificial use,” she said.
Linda Slamon, Thurber’s attorney, said Mancini had been acting
“irrationally” recently and Thurber accompanied her to the church to
get her help.
“If anything, he was there to protect the children and protect Miss
Mancini,” Slamon said.
A judge ordered Mancini, of Farmington, to undergo a mental
evaluation.
© 2004 The Associated Press.
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Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: OT: Couple accused of plotting ‘sacrifice’ of children |
14 Nov 2004 09:20:04 PM |
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:18:18 -0800, stoney <stoney@the.net> said in
alt.atheism:
“We could tell this woman was not right,” said church secretary Donna
Landolfi.
More "not right" than most Christians?
Mancini’s attorney, Kimberly Shoen, said her client meant the children
no harm.
No, they were going to kill them, not harm them.
(God, save me from your followers.)
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"Christians, it is needless to say, utterly detest each other. They slander each
other constantly with the vilest forms of abuse and cannot come to any sort of
agreement in their teachings. Each sect brands its own, fills the head of its own
with deceitful nonsense, and makes perfect little pigs of those it wins over to its
side."
- Celsus On the True Doctrine, translated by R. Joseph Hoffman, Oxford University Press, 1987
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