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1998
LDS/Mormon and other
Religions
- 6/28/98 It takes a village to kill
a child
Hillary
Clinton has popularized the African proverb that an entire community - the
village - is responsible for all of its children. Rearing and looking out for
the welfare of children is a responsibility that extends beyond the parents. So
how do you explain a village that allowed William Genther to suffer a lifetime's
worth of pain in nine short weeks?...Read
More
- 6/26/98-Man
will go to trial for son's death
Seventh District Magistrate Mark Rammell declared Thursday that he was
certain a 2-month-old Rexburg boy had been beaten to death, and that there was
enough evidence to think the boy's father probably did it...Read
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- 6/20/98-New charges added in infant
murder case
A
Rexburg teen-ager charged with beating and shaking his infant son to death also
broke the boy's ribs and his leg in the preceding weeks, prosecutors charged
yesterday...Read More
- 4/26/98
Probe of baby's death
continues - Authorities want to know whether previous abuse went unnoticed by
physicians One
week after a Rexburg baby died from an alleged beating by his father, police are
investigating whether the child had suffered a pattern of prior abuse that went
unnoticed by physicians...Read More
- 4/21/98
Father
charged in shaking death of Rexburg baby
A
Rexburg man has been charged with the murder of his infant son, several days
after police were called to a trailer park and told the baby wasn't breathing.
Benjamin David Genther, 19, appeared in magistrate court in Madison County
Monday on a charge of first-degree murder... Read
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- 2/15/98 Why prosecutors in child deaths shy away from the
murder rap-In recent years, child killers in some parts of the state faced
murder charges and stiff sentences. Elsewhere they encountered lesser charges
and spent as little as a year in prison for similar deaths....
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- October 1998 Houston
chronicle covers the John Charles Blome abuses case in Montgomery County, Texas
reporter Paul McKay covered the crimes committed by Charles Blome, a Mormon
child abuser, and the LDS church, which helped keep his crimes secret... Read
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