So sad…
Kiev, August 7, Interfax - 66-year old resident of Kiev conducted a ritual murder of her 9-year-old grandson. She hit the boy with an iron and completed the crime with a rope, Ukrainian issue of Komsomolskaya Pravda daily writes on Thursday.
Then a woman carried a boy to the sitting room where she had everything prepared beforehand including candles and a brochure with “a prayer to enter paradise” given to her by Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Neighbors told that on the eve of murdering her grandson she spoke about religion and soon apocalypses. Jehovah’s witnesses convinced the woman the Lord would come on 2014 and raise the dead, then all the righteous will go to paradise and take their children with them.
The Kiev Prosecutor’s office initiated a criminal case on the incident. Forensic psychiatric expert examination acknowledged the woman was criminally insane.
And in other news, JW rapist called “good man“:
A Williamstown man was sentenced in Vermont District Court in Chelsea to three to 20 years in prison Wednesday for molesting and raping a female relative but not before friends and family members – who acknowledged his crime – also told the court that he was a “good man.”
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She said the Jehovah’s Witnesses “all love him, and they still love him,” though Jolene said Leonard has lost his fellowship with the Jehovah’s Witnesses because of the conviction.Jolene said Leonard “got involved in looking at pornography on the Internet, and that’s why he let his mind dwell on something he shouldn’t have.”
She said she thinks the family could have sat down with counselors and worked things out instead of this “vendetta” that was taking place.
Roya pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his victim, at times using a gun or knife, over two years starting in 2004 when the victim was a minor.
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9:32 am on August 16th, 2008 1
I doubt that the grandmother was a JW. Maybe belonged to some other apocalyptic group. JW’s do not believe in human sacrifice. Also there is an Anti-JW bias in many parts of the former Soviet Union.
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10:00 am on August 16th, 2008 2
If you had read the article, you would know that she wasn’t a JW, but influenced by them. This is the first time I’ve heard about a 2014 date.
On the “bias” yes. When I was a JW I would have read that as “persecution” but it’s interesting to read about the reasoning beyond some of the government lawsuits and prohibitions. They hinge on the destructiveness of the group.