Mom who beat daughter for not reciting Bible verses correctly sent to state prison

[Teh One Who Knocks]

By Matt Miller - Penn Live


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A Middletown mother will spend 2 1/2 to 5 years in state prison for assaulting her daughter because the teen didn't recite Bible verses correctly.

Rhonda Shoffner, 41, was sentenced by Dauphin County Judge John F. Cherry after she pleaded guilty to charges of aggravated assault, strangulation, child endangerment and making terroristic threats.

"This was an extremely scary situation for this young victim to have to endure. Fortunately, she is doing well now and is in a safe place," Chief Deputy District Attorney Sean McCormack said Thursday.

Police said Shoffner attacked the 13-year-old in March. She bit the girl and slammed the teen's head into a bathroom wall, they said. Investigators said Shoffner told the girl, "I'm going to kill you."

Shoffner was intoxicated during the assault, police said. Cherry ordered her to undergo substance abuse counseling and required her to serve 5 years on probation once she completes her prison term.

McCormack said Shoffner's guilty pleas also encompassed a January incident where she hit and bit a woman during an argument in a car.

[Goofy]

:haha:

[Muddy]

See ya you fuckin wacko religious zealot.

[deebakes]

poor 'lady' :lol:

[lost in melb.]

Thou shalt not assault thy children :nono:

[Godfather]

Thou shalt not assault thy children :nono:

That aint no a biblical verse son :beatdown:

[deebakes]

Thou shalt not assault thy children :nono:

honor thy mother and father :beatdown:

[lost in melb.]

:freakout:

[PorkChopSandwiches]

Seems religion is running its course. I'm happy about its decline


What seems to be going on here is an across-the-board shift away from religiosity in the American public at large, including among those who identify with a particular religious tradition. This can be seen in another recent Pew survey that shows striking growth in the proportion of Americans who say they are spiritual, not religious — from 19 percent to 27 percent over the past five years.

Add these to the 18 percent who say they are neither spiritual nor religious and there are now almost equal numbers of Americans who say they’re non-religious (45 percent) as say they’re both religious and spiritual (48 percent). The latter are down from 59 percent five years ago. (Six percent say they’re religious but not spiritual.)


https://religionnews.com/2017/10/26/the-rising-belief-in-moral-atheists/
Not surprisingly, the religiously affiliated who say they are spiritual but not religious tend to have low levels of religious observance. They are either headed out the church door or barely inside it.