Convicted on 8 counts of conspiracy to commit child abuse.
There’s a reason that the article at the top of this thread is hard to read. It wants to obfuscate the actual issue with phony freedom of speech/religion discussions.
The first 2 paragraphs of your MSM article confirms what the original article contention.
“A Black Earth pastor was found guilty Wednesday of eight counts of conspiracy to commit child abuse for advocating the use of wooden rods to spank children as young as two months.
A Dane County jury took only about two hours to find Philip Caminiti, 54, pastor of the Aleitheia Bible Church, guilty of having instructed members of his flock to punish children as young as infants and toddlers by striking them on the bare buttocks with wood dowels in order to teach them to behave correctly, fitting the church’s literal interpretation of the Bible.”
The great part now is that the children will become wards of the State and CPS, where statisically nation wide they are something like 10 times more likely to be the victims of child sexual abuse.