Kin Park Thaing said in court that she beat her 7-year-old son with a coat hanger in accordance with her religious beliefs and quoted from the Biblical verse Proverbs 23:13, which states, “Do not withhold discipline from a child: if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.”
According to court documents, Thaing attacked the boy on February 3. She said she hit the boy in order to stop him from endangering his 3-year-old sister....
http://www.alternet.org/belief/indiana-woman-justifies-abuse-under-religious-freedom
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