Teen beaten to death, another brutalised by parents, sister & church members in a bid to get them to 'confess their sins'

 

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Oct 15th 2015, 10:59

Lucas Leonard, 19, was killed and his 17-year-old brother Christopher seriously battered during a "counseling session" at the secretive Word of Life Church. Police investigation revealed the boys had been brutally beaten on their genitals, abdomens, backs and thighs  

 

      "During the counseling session, the session turned physical," said Chief Michael Inserra of the police in New Hartford, outside Utica.

 Over the course of several hours, the brothers were ordered to "confess to prior sins and ask for forgiveness," the chief said.

     "We have not determined what this punishment was for. We know there were fists and feet involved in the punishment."

 

The victim's parents, Bruce Leonard, 65, and Deborah Leonard,59, and sister, Sarah Ferguson, 33, were arrested and charged with first-degree manslaughter. Christopher Leonard remains hospitalized and in serious condition, the chief said.\

 

Also arrested and charged with second-degree assault were three other church members. Inserra said more members of the church, described by neighbors as a cult, are under investigation. Meanwhile, seven children — four of them Ferguson's, have been removed from the church by state child welfare workers.

The investigation was launched after Leonard's parents showed up at a local hospital Monday with their badly beaten son. Lucas died at the hospital and an autopsy revealed he had died of blunt-force trauma, the chief said. Within hours, a police SWAT team descended on the Leonards' home in Clayville and the church, where they found his brother on the second floor after several hours of searching. 

 

      "He wasn't in hiding," said Inserra. "But family members weren't making him available."

Bruce Leonard and his wife, Deborah, both pleaded not guilty during their arraignment Monday and were dispatched to the Oneida County jail after they were unable to raise $100,000 bail.

 

The four other suspects, Ferguson, Joseph Irwin, 26, of Chadwicks, David Morey, 26, of Utica and Linda Morey, 54, also of Utica were each ordered held on $50,000 bail. 

 

The Leonards' neighbors said the couple homeschooled their kids and made them read the Bible for two hours every day. They said the children weren't allowed to have sleepovers and were barred from Halloween trick-or-treating.

 

Inserra declined to comment on reports that the church is a cult. But residents who live nearby told the Syracuse Post-Standard that members would rarely venture out in the daylight hours and those who did often were men wearing what they described as "long, black trench coats." They said they would hear strange chanting coming from the building as late as 3 a.m. 

 

A Post-Standard reporter who ventured inside the building Tuesday found police tape across two bathrooms, one labeled "Adam" and the other "Eve."

 

The reporter also said there was a framed message hanging on one wall that read, in part,

     "We have been commissioned through the written word of God to reach out to those who have not experienced the love of Jesus Christ in their lives. Through the systematic training up of saints."

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Revenge is a Poison meant for others, which we end up swallowing ourselves. Vengence is a Dark Light that blinds all who seek it. Don’t argue with Idiots.. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.

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YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...

A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.

"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".

Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.

About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"

The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."

And so it is with life.

What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.

Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.

Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.

Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)

LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.

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