Posted on 09/28/2004 10:23:10 PM PDT by Horatio Gates
Woman Says Boy Targeted Because She Is A Witch
TACOMA, Wash. -- Police are investigating an attack on a middle school student as a possible hate crime because the child's mother says she is a witch, KIRO 7 Eyewitness News reported.
The 11-year-old boy was walking home from Jason Lee Middle School in Tacoma on Monday when a group of children allegedly called him a "Jesus hater", threw rotten apples at him and shouted profanities, said Kathie McKnight, the boy's mother.
McKnight, who said she is a practicing Wiccan, said her faith made her son the target of a hate crime.
"He was calling my son 'Jesus hater' and saying all witches should be burned right before the apples were thrown at him," she said. "So it was very much based on religion."
A Tacoma police spokesman told KIRO 7 Eyewitness News the case is being handled by the department's hate crime specialists
IF she weighs the same as a duck....
Has anyone suggested that Momma Witch beat the boy herself, and then came up with this story to garner publicity?
its a religion for people who need to feel more interesting and special than they actually are.
no need to attack them for being loonies, though...
People like this live to have something like this happen.
She is also probably exagerating or made it up.
For crying out loud! Kids throwing rotten apples = hate crime? Gimme a break.
"Jesus Hater"?
Doesn't really sound like something a bunch of children would call someone.
Normally that would be a logical route to pursue. I have a little first hand info to discount that.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks this is BS.
If she's a witch, can't she cast some spells against her son's attackers? Shows how empty her beliefs are.
Either way you don't attack the kid. You fire up the stake and burn her then you convert the child and raise him right.
Well at least thats what used to happen ....
Hey, here in America we hang our witches. Buring at the stake was a European tradition.
Lol, the kid was called names and got a few apples tossed at him.
Do yourself a favor -- make yourself a mug of chamomile tea, then go down to Costcos warehouse and buy yourself a crate of hankies.
I'm sure it's another cult/religion of peace.
"Hate crime" is a ridiculous concept ... just a matter of time before it becomes a "thought crime." The kid was assaulted, period, and the little bastards who did it should have the rotten apples rubbed in their hair and be sent to bed without supper. (Oh, wait, that would warp them, wouldn't it? Further, that is?) And yes, Wicca is a religion. A little odd by my lights, but then, I probably look odd to other people. As for this being a "new" sort of crime -- hah! I spent my whole childhood being pushed around and told I was going to hell by the friendly little baby Baptists at my school, just because my parents and I didn't go to church. So this is nothing new, just a new target.
I'm sure it's another cult/religion of idiots.
No sheet. This article doesn't even establish that the kid was hit by apples. Most kids in my neighborhood, including me, were pelted with something at some point while growing up, most of the time for childish reasons, naturally.
agreed.
And we stone press our warlocks. :-)
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