Christian Homeschooler Found Guilty Of Locking Daughter In Chicken Coop
A Georgia mother who homeschooled her adopted daughter has been found guilty on 28 counts of child abuse and could now face a sentence of up to 480 years in prison.
Diana Franklin was convicted for horrific abuse which included withholding water from her daughter and putting a gun to the girl’s head.
According to court documents and testimony during the trial in Butler, Georgia, the abused girl, now a teenager, said that Frankin placed her in isolation shortly after she brought her into the home. She was also harshly punished if she had a temper tantrum or hoarded any kind of food….READ MORE at LiberalAmerica
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By: Andrew Bradford
Andrew Bradford is an author, academic, and political activist who lives in Atlanta. He is a Senior Writer for Liberal America and also has his own blog at deepleftfield.info
52 responses to Christian Homeschooler Found Guilty Of Locking Daughter In Chicken Coop
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Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 13:05
Okay, for the last time, it’s “Suffer the little children to come unto me,” not “Make the little children suffer.”
whatthe46 November 24th, 2015 at 13:14
i couldn’t read anymore than what was published on this page. that’s disgusting. why in the hell do people adopt or even foster if they’re only going to abuse. these children have been through enough already.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 13:17
And what kind of vetting is being done in Georgia? People don’t normally just do stuff like this out of the blue. What kind of history did she have?
wpadon November 24th, 2015 at 15:03
My guess is there are two questions
1) Are you a Christian?
2) Are you married to a member of the opposite sex?
If you said yes to both, feel free to pick out your favorite child
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 15:08
It is the deep South, so you may be too close to the truth.
anothertoothpick November 24th, 2015 at 14:38
Did you see the movie Carrie (1976)?
whatthe46 November 24th, 2015 at 14:58
yes, yes, yes.
FatRat November 24th, 2015 at 15:00
Same thought. (shudders)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpX0rril7QA&feature=youtu.be&t=69
MARGARET The closet.
CARRIE No.
MARGARET After all you’ve been taught
CARRIE Everyone isn’t bad, Momma, everything isn’t sinful.
MARGARET Go to your closet and pray. Ask to be forgiven!
CARRIE You’ll like this boy, he…. And Margaret at this word shifts gears and winds up in the grip of a weird babble.
MARGARET Boys. Yes, boys come next. After the blood, the boys come. Like sniffing dogs…
CARRIE Momma
MARGARET …grinning and slobbering, trying to find out where the smell comes from, where the smell is. That… smell!
CARRIE Please stop…
MARGARET Yes, in cars. Yes. I know where they take you in their cars. Roadhouses. Music. Whiskey. I’ve seen it, all right. Oh, yes.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 15:08
Dirty pillows.
FatRat November 24th, 2015 at 16:07
lol
phoebequeen November 24th, 2015 at 16:28
Oooh, I just posted that too . Didn’t see yours. Still laugh at that bit.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 15:09
That was Stephen King’s first novel, and it didn’t sell the first time. Later, when he was a star, they made a movie out of it, and the paperback sold millions. He’s come a long way since then.
FatRat November 24th, 2015 at 16:07
I read somewhere that his wife fished out the first chapter (or rough draft) of Carrie from the kitchen trashcan. He didn’t have faith in the story.
phoebequeen November 24th, 2015 at 16:27
Dirty pillows.
FatRat November 24th, 2015 at 16:29
Great minds think alike. lol
Bunya November 24th, 2015 at 13:35
I remember the days when preachers would say; “don’t be afraid to beat the 10 commandments into your kids”. I thought those days were gone. I guess not.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 15:10
But still, god loves you.
Bunya November 24th, 2015 at 15:21
I never understood that concept. I was taught we were all God’s children and he loves us all unconditionally, except when we’re bad. Then he’s gonna put us in a hell where we’ll burn in a lake of fire for all eternity. So much for unconditional love.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 15:27
I grew up catholic, and they are (or were, I don’t know how it is now) second only to Jews in their harboring of guilt. Nothing creates guilt more than having to confess your “sins” to some old man. And back then, I didn’t know any young priests. I mean, really, what kind of sin can a ten-year-old commit? But before you take your first communion, there’s your first confession, usually at the age of 7 or so. It’s a wonder we didn’t all grow up to be homicidal maniacs.
Bunya November 24th, 2015 at 16:02
It’s all bullsh*t. My boss, who lies, cheats and steals during the week, goes to church every Sunday and gets communion.
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But this is what REALLY pissed me off! An abortion is considered a more grievous sin than killing a living, breathing person. If a woman has an abortion, she’s automatically excommunicated from the church (as if anybody’s gonna know she’s had one), but she’s still required to tithe the church, and if she can’t make it to mass, she can mail in her “donation”. Not only that. She can’t go to a regular priest for absolution. Nope. For forgiveness, she has to grovel to a Monsignore or Archbishop or something like that. Total bullsh*t.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 16:51
Some bishop a few years ago tried to refuse communion to congressmen, including John Kerry, I think, who had voted for abortion.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 21:11
It was, and still is, all about the $$’s and personal power over others.
Bunya November 24th, 2015 at 22:18
Organized religion is big business. They’re tax exempt, production cost free corporations selling fear and hatred.
Suzanne McFly November 24th, 2015 at 16:14
Yeah, we are told we are going to hell from the day we are born practically. When I was a kid I said screw it, I am going to hell anyway may as well make my time here worth it lol.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 16:56
I think it’s pretty damn presumptuous for anyone to claim to know who is going to hell and who is saved. But the catholic church has done that almost from the beginning. My sister was told by her pastor that she would have to pay thousands of dollars to get her fiancé’s first marriage annulled (he was divorced). She told him to get bent, and found an Episcopal priest to marry them. And she’s never been to a catholic church since. That was 20 years or so ago.
Suzanne McFly November 24th, 2015 at 17:25
Yeah, I left the church a long time ago. I sometimes go when there is no service, I like to sit in the pew and pray on my own. I love the way a church makes me feel but I hate the judgement the leaders put upon me.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 18:55
They’re good at judgment, they’ve had a lot of practice at it. I’ve been places where you couldn’t even get in the church when there’s no service because the lock it.
Bunya November 24th, 2015 at 20:56
That’s like the church by my house. They open it up for mass and quickly lock it after the last service. I asked one of the attendants why they did that, and she said it was to keep out the vagrants who come in and sleep on the pews and use the facilities. How’s THAT for love and compassion?
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 20:57
That’s those friendly catholics for you.
Suzanne McFly November 24th, 2015 at 23:14
Well I go to one on base, its always open during the day.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 18:34
We have very similar backgrounds. I “fell” from the church in Chicago. You?
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 18:54
While in the Air Force. I actually started using my brain, and realized none of it made sense.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 18:58
As soon as I got out of catholic elementary school I said goodbye and never looked back. I’d been abused by priests and nuns a few too many times by that point.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 19:01
Sorry to hear that. I found out years later that some priests in the parish I had grown up in were perverts. My brother was a cop there and even investigated one of them, followed him all the way out here to Baltimore. The creep was “retired” and still receiving a pension from the diocese. Reminded me of a Law and Order episode. Hope you’re okay now.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 20:01
There was never anything sexual, at least towards me. The nuns were masters of psychological abuse and the priests just loved to slap the alter boys around (I was one) and generally treat us like crap.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 20:14
The nuns had years of practice at being abusive, both physically and psychologically. I never saw anything from any of the priests while I was there, but they must have been hiding it, because some of the same ones were accused later of sexual abuse. A couple of them died before any legal action could be taken.
Bunya November 24th, 2015 at 21:02
I went to Catholic school in Chicago also (St. Pascal). The nuns would not only belittle us, but beat the shit out of us on occasion. I couldn’t go home and tell my parents that the nuns beat me, because I’d get a second helping that evening for giving the nun’s a hard time.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 21:12
St. John Vianney, on the near-west side.
rg9rts November 24th, 2015 at 14:07
Chicken Shait Outfit
Budda November 24th, 2015 at 15:46
Where do people learn this? There is a difference between appropriate punishment for a child or teenager and plain old torture.
Suzanne McFly November 24th, 2015 at 16:12
Sentencing right before Christmas, enjoy your holiday you evil witch.
Wee Mousie November 24th, 2015 at 17:56
One thing seems clear to me, and that is that if the state allows a private citizen to adopt a child left to the care of the state, it has both the right and the responsibility to see that the child is educated in a state run public school. Although I do not buy the argument, one might argue that a natural child is the property of its parents, who should be allowed to raise their child in their home, to believe whatever B.S. they believe. However, a child who has been left to the state to raise, incurs a responsibility on the state to see that said child receives an adequate, reality-based education, as free from cultish beliefs and shibboleths as the state can manage. This would also insure that the adopted child would have other adults overseeing its welfare, who are able to intercede in cases of an unfit adoptive parents, such as Diana Franklin.
Dwendt44 November 24th, 2015 at 20:01
Talking sense like that will get you nowhere with the rabid right wing crowd.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 18:35
Why? ‘Cuz the bible tells her so.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 18:52
The bible didn’t tell her to do any of the sick sh*t she did to that poor girl.
Roctuna November 24th, 2015 at 19:00
I bet she thinks it did though. Plenty of child abuse in the good book.
Larry Schmitt November 24th, 2015 at 19:01
Who was it, Lot, who tossed his daughters to a mob?
Dwendt44 November 24th, 2015 at 20:00
Offered to do so. The ‘mob’, if there was one, rejected them. Ugly maybe.
Didn’t stop them from seducing and having sex with good ole Lot for weeks on end though.
Dan November 24th, 2015 at 19:16
The damn Bible again.
Darksnark November 25th, 2015 at 01:20
Looks like this twisted, abusive rightwingnut will be locked-up for so long that she’ll miss the Rapture….
whatthe46 November 25th, 2015 at 01:34
she can watch it from her bar windows.
Darksnark November 25th, 2015 at 01:37
She’ll be one voter the GOP won’t be able to count on next year….