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niyad

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Tue Jun 2, 2015, 11:54 AM Jun 2015

Arkansas Family Values Rep Who Regifted Children To A Rapist Still Sure He’s The Victim

(there are quite a number of stories about this disgusting perv at the link below)


Not One Of These People Is A Duggar Either


Arkansas Family Values Rep Who Regifted Children To A Rapist Still Sure He’s The Victim

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Still has that Derp in the headlights look

In with all the excitement around gross child-bad-touchers Josh Duggar (admittedly) and Dennis Hastert (allegedly), we also got an update late last week on terrible human being and Arkansas state Rep. Justin Harris (R-Ewww), the super-Christiany guy who adopted two little girls, then “rehomed” them with a friend and employee who would later go on to rape one of the girls. After the initial flurry of reporting and OMG/WTF stories about Harris, the Arkansas Times has kept on the story, and published a substantial follow-up on Harris Friday. And what do we learn? Justin Harris is still a big Jesusbag in the Arkansas House, he voted himself a pay raise, and as of right now, it sure looks like he’s not going to face any consequences for discarding a couple of adopted children. Maybe he’ll manage to lose in 2016. He’s still quite certain that he’s done nothing wrong; when he returned to Twitter after a few months — with his messages only available to approved followers, of course — he posted a couple of lines from Psalms 37:12-13 to make it clear that He Will Survive:

The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him
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But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming

Flashback To The Gory Details. Just to recap, Harris is a Godly family-values Republican who, with his wife Marsha, runs a daycare called “Growing God’s Kingdom Preschool” in West Fork, Arkansas, which rakes in a very healthy income, roughly 90 percent of it from state and federal subsidies for low-income children, even though, being a small-government conservative, believes government spending does not create jobs.

But what really put Justin Harris on the national radar was the horrifying saga of the Harrises’ adoption and abandonment of their daughters. The Arkansas Times has constructed a handy timeline of the whole sorry affair, from the girls’ initial entry into the foster care system in 2011 after a meth fire at their birth mother’s home, up through today.

It’s such a horrible story that it almost defies summary: The Harrises claimed that the girls, perfect angels before the adoption, suddenly turned feral and threatening to the rest of the family as soon as the adoption went through; a babysitter for the Harrises claims, however, that the couple said the girls were possessed by demons, and that the family kept them locked up in separate rooms with surveillance cameras to watch them (the Harrises deny this allegation). The Harrises insist that the Department of Human Services (DHS) threatened to prosecute them for abandonment if they tried to undo the adoption, which is why they sent the girls to live with Eric and Stacey Francis, friends of the Harris family, just months after the adoption. Eric Francis was also hired as a teacher at Growing God’s Kingdom. In January 2014, Eric Francis raped the older girl; he was arrested in April of that year and eventually sentenced to 40 years in a plea deal. Finally, in March of this year, the Arkansas Times broke the story that Harris had handed his adopted daughters off to a man who raped one of them.
So, About those Demons…

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Read more at http://wonkette.com/587046/arkansas-family-values-rep-who-regifted-children-to-a-rapist-still-sure-hes-the-victim#ptIEsvGfAp88gU6O.99

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