{"id":1149,"date":"2006-05-15T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2006-05-15T17:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/05\/15\/jws-in-the-news-convicted-of-whipping-daughter-to-death\/"},"modified":"2006-07-05T14:06:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T18:06:19","slug":"jws-in-the-news-convicted-of-whipping-daughter-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2006\/05\/jws-in-the-news-convicted-of-whipping-daughter-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"JWs in the News: Convicted of whipping daughter to death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Items like these show the outer limits and effects of JW family involvement, which includes a rationalization of childbeating (from a common mistranslation and misapplication of a biblical verse that children will become “spoiled” if not physically beaten). Parents, who envision themselves in a power pyramid, will sometimes take out their frustrations on those with less power. It is a chain of domination and submission to authority. Here is one result.<\/p>\n

Larry Slack has been convicted of flogging his 12-year old daughter to death<\/a> with an electrical cord (as well as aggravated battery to a child in the beating of her brother). <\/p>\n

All six children were beaten, but Slack was especially furious that the murder victim – tied to a bare metal futon frame and gagged – “wouldn’t take the beating quietly.”<\/p>\n

Prosecutors have said<\/a> the couple were strict Jehovah’s Witnesses who practiced corporal punishment.<\/p>\n

Leon Slack said the electrical-cord beatings were routine:<\/p>\n

You felt it not only in your back, but in the front of your chest,” Slack said. He then described the force his father used–like “you were hammering a nail into wood.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The couple loved their children but did whip them as a form of discipline, just as their own parents had, Streff said. <\/p>\n

Larry Slack worked as a Chicago Transit Authority machinist and Constance Slack worked as a nurse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Constance Slack has already pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n

In his videotaped statement to prosecutors played in court Thursday, the corpulent Slack said, “I bought [a knife] for the purposes of killing myself. I hid it under the fat folds of my stomach.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Prosecutors called the suicide attempt “self-serving.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Items like these show the outer limits and effects of JW family involvement, which includes a rationalization of childbeating (from a common mistranslation and misapplication of a biblical verse that children will become “spoiled” if not physically beaten). Parents, who envision themselves in a power pyramid, will sometimes take out their frustrations on those with less power. It is a chain of domination and submission to authority. Here is one result. Larry Slack has been convicted of flogging his 12-year…<\/p>\n

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