Netters
I am posting this post with great fear of how imoral the
American society has become, and I am asking you only one question, can you
imagine if this happens in Africa? Read on and understand what we miss by not
comming from a developed country.
Em
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Autistic Boy's Death At Church Ruled Homicide Child Was Suffocated, Autopsy Report Says CNN.com 8-26-03
- MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (CNN)
-- An 8-year-old autistic boy who died at a prayer service where church
members tried to heal him of "spirits" was suffocated, the medical
examiner's office said Monday.
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- Terrance Cottrell went to a prayer service Friday with
his mother, who prayed over him with a pastor and other church members.
By the time the two-hour service was over, Terrance was dead.
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- The official cause of death is mechanical asphyxia due
to external chest compression, meaning Terrance was suffocated. The
death has been ruled a homicide.
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- The church is in a run-down strip mall in northern
Milwaukee, with the sign for the former tenant -- a bar -- still posted
above its door. A poster on the door says the Faith Temple Church of the
Apostolic Faith has services every Sunday.
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- Ray Hemphill -- a pastor at the storefront church and
the brother of head Pastor David Hemphill -- was arrested early Saturday
on suspicion of child abuse and is awaiting formal charges, authorities
said. Ray Hemphill led Friday's prayer service, his brother said.
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- David Hemphill told CNN that Terrance and his mother
had been attending the church for about three months.
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- The adults formed a circle around the boy and placed
their hands lightly over him as they prayed for him, David Hemphill said
Sunday.
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- "[They] were just praying for him and asking God to
deliver him from the spirit that he had," David Hemphill said. "The
little boy had spirits in him, and we was asking God to deliver
him."
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- David Hemphill said the prayers were in accordance
with Matthew 12:43, which says, "When an evil spirit comes out of a man,
it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it."
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- At the end of the prayers, one of the women noticed
that Terrance was not breathing. An adult called 911, but when emergency
services arrived around 11 p.m., the boy was dead, David Hemphill
said.
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- A neighbor described Terrance's mother as a zealous
church convert who once said the evil spirit had spoken through her son
at the church.
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- "She said he said, 'Kill me, take me, kill me,'"
neighbor Denise Allison said. "I was like, are you serious? I couldn't
really believe that."
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- Asked whether church members could have confused
Terrance's autism with evil spirits, David Hemphill said no.
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- "It wasn't confused," he told CNN. "I know what I'm
talking about."
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- Hemphill said Terrance "had spirits in him," and
church members simply asked God to "deliver him."
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- This past Sunday, services were held at David
Hemphill's home, where he said members consoled each other about the
boy's death. Hemphill said they haven't yet decided when services will
return to the church.
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- CNN correspondent Jeff Flock contributed to this
report.
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- © 2003 Cable News Network LP, LLLP. An AOL Time Warner
Company. All Rights Reserved.
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- http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/08/25/autistic.boy.death/
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