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England: An evangelical preacher has been convicted on nine charges of wounding and cruelty to his sons. Bradford Crown Court also convicted the boys' mother, a devout Christian, of cruelty.
The evangelical preacher put safety pins through his sons' lips, sliced their mouths with scalpel blades and squeezed the older boy's tongue with sharp pincers.
The court heard that the father used religion as his excuse for the cruelty:
Prosecutor Caroline Wigin had told the court the man, a self-styled preacher and former medical student, may have mutilated the boys as his interpretation of religious teaching.
He had told the children God had had his tongue cut off in the Bible.
The court is still considering further allegations against the parents, who cannot be named because it would identify the children.
Dad guilty of sons' scalpel torture—Bradford Telegraph and Argus, 23rd January 2008.
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