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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsthe harris thing gets uglier and uglier:Ark. Rep. Justin Harris Had Daughters’ Demons ‘Exorcised’
Ark. Rep. Justin Harris Had Daughters Demons Exorcised Before Rehoming Them With A Rapist
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The power of Derp compels him
The sad, ugly saga of Justin Harris and the rehoming of his two adopted daughters just morphed into a B-movie horror flick. According to several people who knew the Harrises, the super-Christian Arkansas state rep. and his wife, Marsha, believed the young girls were possessed by demons and hired specialists to drive Satan from the childrens tiny bodies. They also kept their six-year-old adoptive daughter locked and isolated in her toyless room with just a video camera to watch her so she couldnt communicate telepathically with her four-year-old sister. (ummm, marsha, if people can communicate telepathically, distance does not matter, nor do things like doors, locks, etc.)
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Exorcisms and telepathy are not part of the Harrises religious practice. They followed the techniques in a book called When Love Is Not Enough, a Parents Guide to Reactive Attachment Disorder by Nancy Thomas, who is a recognized expert on therapeutic parenting techniques.
Amazon reviews of Thomass book detail some of her therapeutic advice:
In the beginning, rewards and bonuses should be food, clothing or necessities.
In the beginning, your child should learn to ask for everything. They must ask to go to the bathroom, to get a drink of water, EVERYTHING. When it starts to feel like they must ask to breathe, you are on the right track.
The alarm on the bedroom door establishes a very clear physical limit for the child. When the alarm is working, day or night, the child can be controlled by being placed in the bedroom
There needs to be a very substantial consequence for opening the door after being told not to. In my house, for children over 5, it is 100 to 500 (depending on their age) pushups interspersed throughout the day for a number of days and no privileges until they are complete.
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Attorney Wellss statement did not address the specific claims made by Goldsborough and by other sources, but for the moment, were perfectly open to the possibility that the Harrises are in deep damage control mode, and that it is entirely possible that a couple of folks who run Growing Gods Kingdom preschool almost exclusively through government funding, by the way just might believe that demons are responsible for abused childrens behavioral difficulties.
Read more at http://wonkette.com/579216/ark-rep-justin-harris-had-daughters-demons-exorcised-before-rehoming-them-with-a-rapist#ygKc83A2e0ofYGlT.99
demmiblue
(36,947 posts)They should be charged with child neglect and abandonment, in the very least.
Those poor little girls.
niyad
(114,177 posts)don't forget, not only does he run a religious "preschool" (growing god's kingdom), but he is chair of the committee that oversees the dhs and child protective services.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)while promoting cutting help for others is another trait of this asshole.
What he and his wife did to those girls was criminal. That pair are a couple of sick, sick people who should have all of their kids taken away while they're locked up for a very long time. I fear for any child trapped in their daycare, and I hope the authorities keep a close watch on it.
Thankfully the girls are very happy and well-adjusted now, which gave me great peace to learn. I hope it does the same for you, niyad
FUCK harris and his wife. If there exists a Satan, they are its spawn for sure.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)a 2 year old and a 6 year old. it's unbelievable how cruel some people can be.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)of some non-existent skydaddy. At least that's there proffered excuse.
ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)in my experience. this goes way beyond anything most of the religious people I know would sign on to.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)when it was the butt of national jokes, a haven for yahoos as exemplified in stories such as "Huckleberry Finn", "The Arkansas Traveller", and "A Slow Train to Arkansas", and even in cartoons like "Hillbilly Hare", the Wacky Races, and the Flintstones (when Fred and Company visit their feuding relatives in "Arkanstone"
ck4829
(35,100 posts)niyad
(114,177 posts)Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)Throw the book at them. Enough of the religious excuses. This crapstain needs to be thrown out of his cushy legislative job now, and both "parents" should be facing serious charges.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)hifiguy
(33,688 posts)in a soft room in a place surrounded by tall walls topped with razor wire. Hourly horse-sized shots of Thorazine should be a part of the package.
Anyone who believes in "demons" shouldn't be allowed to care for a cat, dog, or goldfish much less a child.
onethatcares
(16,231 posts)she must be a fucking witch.
and this asshole Harris needs to be tossed in a pond with his hands tied. If he floats we'll believe
he's in the right and not a warlock.
these people are sick sons of worms and I apologize to the worms.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)and then should be burned at the stake
niyad
(114,177 posts)them to these monsters.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)anotojefiremnesuka
(198 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)and this is just infuriating on so many levels.
http://www.arktimes.com/arkansas/casting-out-demons-why-justin-harris-got-rid-of-kids-he-applied-pressure-to-adopt/Content?oid=3725371
niyad
(114,177 posts)sick and twisted and obscene horror. those two, and every single person who facilitated them getting those girls, deserves to spend the rest of their lives in jail. I know this will never happen, but one can hope.
quite frankly, if I were in that state, and one of them walked in front of my car, I think said car would suffer brake failure, at the very least.
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