[jeannineinsd]

Post # 42 is apparently referring to the Danielle Van Dam case. Her neighbor, David Westerfield, was convicted of her murder here in San Diego in 2002.

The girl's parents did testify in court to a party on the night she was abducted.

You can do a search on "Van Dam" or "Westerfield" here on Free Republic and you will get a great many threads on this case.

This is the fist I have heard, though, on the parents being church goers.

[redheadtoo]

This is the fist I have heard, though, on the parents being church goers.

As sick as it sounds the Van Dams were members of a church. I actually saw their pastor on television saying how the church was going to support them.

I do, however, have some feelings for the difficult situation of the church's pastor. Although the Van Dams participated in behavior that would have gotten them excommunicated in any other church they were also in the worst possible crisis, the murder of a child. It is awfully hard to discipline a church member in those circumstances.