Feel the pain

They found the 12 year old girl begging on the street. She had been sleeping at construction sites in Port St Lucie Florida after running away from the people her father had sent her to live with friends "who share the same religious beliefs and values" and to be beaten by while the father listened to the screams from his home in Coral Springs by speaker phone. Michael C. Bilodeau, his head clean shaven and wearing steel rimmed glasses explained that the girl just wouldn’t accept Jesus into her heart and used slang and of course the way to get Jesus into someone’s heart is to have them stripped naked and whipped; naked of course because Bilodeau wanted her, as he explained, to “feel the pain.”

When police went to the home the girl had been sent to the father was there, having arrived to help look for her. He told the investigators the girl needed discipline and sent her to live with fellow sick fundamentalist beasts because his wife, the girls mother was an internet user and couldn’t care for her. He was arrested when he told police that he himself had recently made her take her clothes off and submit to a whipping with a leather belt.

Sadly these stories are too common and too infrequently reported, although in civilized societies there are serious penalties for what amounts to torture and child neglect. Port St Lucie is probably not a civilized society although it certainly contains a fair number of churches that are regularly attended. Comments to the local newspaper’s web edition often contain calls for summary executions of pickpockets, calls to gouge out the eyes of petty criminals and attacks on “liberals” who are at war with Christianity. This article, as of 10:00AM had 17 comments attached, nearly all of which supported Bilodeau’s actions.

Damn them all. Damn their beliefs, damn their ugly Republican hearts and damn their words. May whatever God there is or gods there are place their vengeance upon them, although 15 years in Raiford would do very nicely.