Heck, this one was in my own back yard. I used to live in Moreno Valley when it was called Sunnymead a very long time ago.
Pastor Jessica Banks of Moreno Valley was sentenced to life in prison for abusing her 5 adopted daughters.
Banks was arrested in June 2005, about a month after one of the sisters, a bruised and emaciated 6-year-old, was found curled up on the pavement in front of a tax business at the strip mall.
The mall also housed Word of Life Apostolic Church, where Banks was pastor and the children attended school.
Storefront church, check. No education, check. Homeschooling, check. Poverty, check. Nutball stepmother, check. Those poor girls did not have a chance. At least she will spend the rest of her sorry life in prison. Is this a Christian? Is she going to heaven? Geez man, she violated two of her stepdaughters with paint sticks. What kind of sick pastor would do that?
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Patti · 814 weeks ago
Mojoey 107p · 814 weeks ago
Guest · 814 weeks ago
You make it seem as if it were okay, or at the very least, casually expected, if it was not a christian or a pastor. No, you see that is the problem, above all else, she is human. And humans can be a range of sick individuals, not solely one sex, religion, ethnicity, nationality or the likes.
I believe the proper question, one should be asking under such circumstances, is this. How in the world, could somebody do something to ANY other human being, ESPECIALLY a child, whose developmental years are key for them to have any decent future, without having such a heavy conscious weighing them down, which would have kept them from performing the act in the first place?
The answer is obvious. Its always the same in circumstances like this, where a child has to suffer, because of some awful ignorant so-called parent who is stuck in the past. RELIGION. I really don't know, how else one could even incubate such ideas to punish innocent little girls for whatever it is they did wrong, which I'm sure was only "wrong," in an extreme religious sense.
But what pisses me off the most, is people who agree with me, up until that point, and then decide that, because they are religious, they don't agree. Not because of any evidence, but simply because they have faith, its there, why get rid of something that is there and makes you feel comfortable? Its the true American way, isn't it? To have that comfort?
Well, how else do you think somebody was permitted to even slip into that mindset of performing such heinous acts? Other people, suggesting that its okay to not be logical or rational. Its okay to just be satisfied with never knowing anything, but listening to an ancient text that contradicts many of today's modern ideals that we would find immoral.
But no, sadly you will all hang on to your beliefs, and more children along the way will suffer because of it. At least I can say I tried to be rational.
Mojoey 107p · 813 weeks ago