Posted on 01/23/2005 8:58:36 AM PST by Lindykim
The Christian Underground http://www.christian-underground.com READ IT - LEARN FROM IT - PRAY OVER IT - SHARE IT --- Witches Kill Baby January 21, 2005
Little girl had 40 puncture wounds and a snapped neck Pagan tattoos may match baby girl's wounds Photos of couple's religious markings studied in probe of toddler's death
Prosecutors have obtained photographs of a Springfield Township couple's neopagan tattoos in an effort to match the markings to puncture wounds on the woman's slain year-old daughter. Daniel Duffield and Vanessa McGlumphy are charged in connection with the neck-snapping death of McGlumphy's 13-month-old daughter Jacqueline Mae Cooper.
Aside from the fatal neck injury, the toddler's body was also riddled with more than 40 puncture wounds, 12 broken ribs and a lacerated liver. Prosecutors last week received permission from Summit County Common Pleas Judge Marvin Shapiro to photograph the couple to determine whether their religious tattoos match puncture wounds that appear on the toddler's feet.
According to court records, the child had puncture wounds on her foot in the shape of a Wicca or Celtic symbol.
In addition, prosecutors say that Duffield and McGlumphy told investigators that they wanted to raise the girl in their Wiccan faith, an earth-based religion sometimes called ``The Craft´´ or the ``The Craft of the Wise.´´
Duffield told investigators that he placed the Wiccan pentacle symbol on the girl's feet, prosecutors say. Photos of the couple's markings were taken last week at the Summit County Jail, where the two are being held. Duffield's tattoos include a skull and dagger, an anarchy symbol, a demon and a Celtic cross, prosecutors say. McGlumphy's include a goat head, Medusa and a she-devil.
Prosecutors say a needle containing the child's DNA was found near her crib around the time of her death. The child's puncture wounds, prosecutors contend, are evidence of abuse at the hands of Duffield and proof that McGlumphy ignored the girl's injuries. ``For (McGlumphy), Wicca is nothing but an appreciation and love of nature,´´ said defense lawyer Tom Adgate, who represents the woman. Adgate said his client ``didn´t notice -- and she didn´t condone´´ -- the symbol puncture wounds. ``And she doesn´t know when it was done.´´
Duffield's lawyers could not be reached for comment. Duffield, 32, is charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter, child endangering and felonious assault involving puncturing the girl's feet and face. McGlumphy, 25, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangering. Each has pleaded not guilty.
Both are scheduled for trial Monday, but Duffield has asked for a delay to allow his lawyers more time to prepare for trial. Shapiro is expected to rule on the request in a hearing.
The toddler died Oct. 6 from either a dislocation at the top of the spine -- from blunt impact to the head -- or a ``hyperextension/hyperflexion´´ of the neck, according to autopsy reports.
On Tuesday, a juvenile court judge granted temporary custody of the girl's twin sister to McGlumphy's father. The arrangement was agreed to by the child's biological father.
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First of all, if you are going to do it, it's your responsibility as a parent to make sure that instrument being used is sterile. I would check for myself, so why wouldn't I check for my child??
And who are you to say that it's vanity? A lot of people have it done for cultural reasons that have nothing to do with vanity. What are you going to do, question everyone's motives for doing so before "allowing" it?
You are free to not do it, and I am free to do so. I also must accept the consequences if something should go wrong.
You are more like your screen name than you know. What do you see when you look in a mirror?
"I am no devil, for this is none..."
uh huh.
Not that I'm judging you or anything...
Yeah, I saw that after I posted...lol. GTMA!
I don't think parents should be allowed punch holes in their kids bodies, no.
And a child who gets Hep. B from a piercing gun has been endangered.
Well, that's your opinion, and thankfully, not the law.
What if your eight year old, or even seventeen year old, wanted to get it done, and you said ok, and she still got Hep. B? You consented, you're still responsible, aren't you? They are still minors.
BTW, there is such a thing as a Hep. B vaccine. I have gotten it, and so have my children, thanks to overseas deployments.
Yes they do....not too far from the volcanic Mt. Springfield.
In the center of town, of course, is the statue of the town's glorious founder: Jebediah Springfield.
Thank you.
Not entirely correct. The state government of Missouri issued an extermination order against all Mormons, and drove them from the state by mob rule and murder, stole individual and church property, and generally behaved like the thugs and murderers they were.
That practice, reaching a new height (or depth), in Missouri was continued in Illinois until the Mormons were driven out of the territories of the United States altogether. "Utah" was owned by Mexico at the time. It seems abundantly clear that America ceased to be a land of freedom of religion in the mid 1800's.
Since we have the precedent of the might of the U.S. government being used against the Mormons, even to the extend of sending an army to "watch" over them, and punish them for any perceived abuses of the so-called National Morality, usually by men and women of low/no morality as defined even by that same rule. Why don't we see similar practices to quash the practices of other religions like psycedelic drugs used by "Native" American Indian "Religions", when anyone else using it is arrested? Why are envirowackos allowed to press for the forced implementation of their patently religious beliefs upon the rest of us under the guise of wilderness/clean air/clean water/global warming ruses? Clearly all "Religions" are not equal in America.
Why can't we send an army to surround and observe militant islam? Why can't we confiscate mosques where imams preach anti-US hatred and call for jihad/violence against America. The U.S government confiscated LDS Church properties for the mere practice of a biblical marriage philosophy which hurt no one.
I will tell you why, it is because the U.S government has become the defacto state religion, and it must crush any religion that is not evil like itself.
I don't have a problem at all with circumcision for medical purposes. :-)
"I don't have a problem at all with circumcision for medical purposes. :-)"
Don't think you should have a problem even if it isn't for medical purposes... Freedom of choice. You decide what is right for you and others decide for themselves what is right for them. Live and let live!
But this "medical procedure" (mutilation) started out as a cultural & religious practice...
Like female circumcision?
Immigrant Nigerians are taking a fancy to doing that over here in Ireland to young girls. Cutting their clitoris, so they'll not take pleasure from sex. Some say it's religious or cultural...live and let live.
Others see it as barbarism. I'm with the second lot.
"Dabbling"?
How so?
If you're calling the 'Dark Side' out, it'll come -- but how will it manifest itself?
"Like female circumcision? "
Who was talking about that...IMHO you are like a dog with a bone...just can't let it go....
When one of your comments gets knocked down, you find another subject to entice and provoke...
Time to move on....
Total Hypocracy!!
Let's say in the future some "mental health officials" determine cutting on the clitoris so they'll not take pleasure from sex to be "mentally beneficial". I know it's a stretch, but just hypothetically....??
I'm changing the subject?
I'm comparing like with like. Mutilation of young bodies unnecessarily.
I'm with you on that Gin'...
8^)
You are talking about a hypothetical situation. I don't know if there are medical circumstances in which clitoral removal is required...there probably is. I'd like to know the premise on which it is reccommended.
There are medical reasons - other than cultural ones - why boys are circumcized. A cousin of mine was because of repeat urinary tract infections as a child. He's an Irish Catholic kid - no religious or cultural reason to have it done.
BTTT
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