Prosecutors: Bamboo sticks used in 'demon' beating

[Javaman]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6359936.html


Both parents of a 3-year-old southwest Harris County boy beat him with bamboo sticks and poked his feet with chopsticks in a violent attempt to remove demons from his body, a prosecutor said Tuesday in a court hearing.

Assistant Harris County District Attorney Darin Darby, citing a witness statement from the boy’s 6-year-old sister, on Tuesday presented new details of the attack on Saturday to state District Judge Debbie Mantooth Stricklin in the case against Phung Tran, 36.

She and her husband, Jacky Tran, 35, are charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony. He was arrested on Saturday. His wife was charged on Monday. Both face up to life in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors say the parents, Buddhists and vegetarians, believed demons entered the boy through meat he ate.

[MercutioATC]

1. Hey, getting rid of demons is never easy.

...especially meat demons.

[NeedleCast]

2. I think their claim to being Buddhists ended when they beat a child with bamboo

I have to admit that as soon as I read the first sentance I thought "fundy christians." Sometimes I gotta check my prejudice too...

[On the Road]

5. Buddhists are Not Allowed to Kill

the flip side of that is that they can be pretty violent short of the taking of life.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

3. Um...Buddhists don't believe meat contains demons

Sounds like these people are just fucking whacked out.

[Ian David]

4. The parents should run for Governor of Lousiana against the other exorcist, Bobby Jindal. n/t