the harris thing gets uglier and uglier:Ark. Rep. Justin Harris Had Daughters’ Demons ‘Exorcised’

Ark. Rep. Justin Harris Had Daughters’ Demons ‘Exorcised’ Before ‘Rehoming’ Them With A Rapist


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The power of Derp compels him

The sad, ugly saga of Justin Harris and the “rehoming” of his two adopted daughters just morphed into a B-movie horror flick. According to several people who knew the Harrises, the super-Christian Arkansas state rep. and his wife, Marsha, believed the young girls were possessed by demons and hired “specialists” to drive Satan from the children’s tiny bodies. They also kept their six-year-old adoptive daughter locked and isolated in her toyless room with just a video camera to watch her so she couldn’t “communicate telepathically” with her four-year-old sister. (ummm, marsha, if people can communicate telepathically, distance does not matter, nor do things like doors, locks, etc.)
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“Exorcisms and telepathy are not part of the Harrises’ religious practice. They followed the techniques in a book called When Love Is Not Enough, a Parent’s Guide to Reactive Attachment Disorder by Nancy Thomas, who is a recognized expert on therapeutic parenting techniques.”

Amazon reviews of Thomas’s book detail some of her therapeutic advice:

“In the beginning, rewards and bonuses should be food, clothing or necessities.”

“In the beginning, your child should learn to ask for everything. They must ask to go to the bathroom, to get a drink of water, EVERYTHING. When it starts to feel like they must ask to breathe, you are on the right track.”

“The alarm on the bedroom door establishes a very clear physical limit for the child. When the alarm is working, day or night, the child can be controlled by being placed in the bedroom … There needs to be a very substantial consequence for opening the door after being told not to. In my house, for children over 5, it is 100 to 500 (depending on their age) pushups interspersed throughout the day for a number of days and no privileges until they are complete.”
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Attorney Wells’s statement did not address the specific claims made by Goldsborough and by other sources, but for the moment, we’re perfectly open to the possibility that the Harrises are in deep damage control mode, and that it is entirely possible that a couple of folks who run “Growing God’s Kingdom” preschool — almost exclusively through government funding, by the way — just might believe that demons are responsible for abused children’s behavioral difficulties.

Read more at http://wonkette.com/579216/ark-rep-justin-harris-had-daughters-demons-exorcised-before-rehoming-them-with-a-rapist#ygKc83A2e0ofYGlT.99