{"id":266,"date":"2018-06-18T18:37:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/?p=266"},"modified":"2018-06-18T18:37:29","modified_gmt":"2018-06-18T18:37:29","slug":"couple-who-beat-daughter-to-death-per-the-pearls-instructions-face-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/18\/couple-who-beat-daughter-to-death-per-the-pearls-instructions-face-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple Who Beat Daughter to Death per the Pearls&#8217; Instructions Face Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">November 29, 2011<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">At least three known child deaths have been linked to the child discipline book &#8220;To Train Up a Child&#8221; written by Michael and Debi Pearl, a fundamentalist Christian minister and his wife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Their book advocates corporal punishment for children from infancy using implements and even suggests withholding food and hosing children down for behavior lapses. As I&#8217;ve written previously, the Pearls&#8217; writings have a wide following.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Recent child deaths caused by beatings administered by parents pursuant to the Pearls&#8217; instructions have received significant publicity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The trial in the case involving Larry and Carri Williams of Sedro-Woolley, Washington, is set for May 7, 2012. Out on bail after being accused of beating their 13-year-old adopted daughter to death, the Williams now face life in prison on a homicide charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Their daughter was found face down, naked, and emaciated in her family&#8217;s backyard on May 12, 2011. Officials determined her death to have been caused by hypothermia and malnutrition. According to the sherriff&#8217;s affidavit, she had been beaten earlier in the day with 15-inch plastic piping. The use of this piping to &#8220;train&#8221; children is one of the primary recommendations in the Pearls&#8217; book.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 29, 2011 At least three known child deaths have been linked to the child discipline book &#8220;To Train Up a Child&#8221; written by Michael and Debi Pearl, a fundamentalist Christian minister and his wife. Their book advocates corporal punishment for children from infancy using implements and even suggests withholding food and hosing children down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mariannaklebanov.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}