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[theweaselking]

woman blames the devil and not her husband for severely burning their infant daughter after the 2-month-old was put in a microwave, a Houston television station reported.

Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua's efforts to become a preacher.

"Satan saw my husband as a threat. Satan attacked him because he saw (Joshua) as a threat," Eva Mauldin told Houston television station KHOU-TV.

A Galveston County grand jury indicted Joshua Mauldin last week on child injury charges after hearing evidence that he placed his daughter in a motel microwave for 10 to 20 seconds.

Comments

[tjackson.livejournal.com]

bwahahaha

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Kill them both and give that poor baby to some nice Heathens to raise.

Sweet fuck.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

Begs the question why a preacher would listen to Satan, or conversely, why someone who can be ordered around by Satan would want to be a preacher. What if Satan took control of him while preaching and spread all kinds of erroneous teachig and blasphemy?

Anyway it sounds more like Moloch than Satan. A preacher would no doubt have read in the Old Testament about how the ancient Israelites made their children pass through fire for Moloch. (It is unclear whether this was a human sacrifice or a purifying ritual that sometimes happened to be fatal.)

[squizzlzilla.livejournal.com]

isn't it basically just down to this:

good things happen: god's will
bad things happen: work of satan

free will is for suckers. If they accept free will, they'd have to take responsibility for their actions.

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

Oooh, bonus points for Talhmud reference.

[jirel.livejournal.com]

I've seen this before. Family put the eyes out of girl because they said she was a witch and Satan made them do it.

[opaqueplanet.livejournal.com]

Since when does Satan make people put out the eyes of witches? I say they're lying.

[normanrafferty.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Apparently, if your Myspace page is critical of Rupert Murdoch, it gets taken down. But a page critical of Satan can stay.

[itlandm.livejournal.com]

I guess this is, if not proof, then certainly a hint that Rubert Murdoch is not Satan after all.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Wow, an actual, straight-out, no-irony "the Devil made me do it" defense. And here I thought that'd gone out of style....

-- Steve, of course, really doesn't see the utility of that defense; though he could see the defense of "hubby was nuts".

[kookiemaster.livejournal.com]

Lock them up, throw away the key ... and blame the lack of due process on Satan. Though I suspect that "baby microwavers" life expectancy in prison might be a tad short.