This fear of public school is overwrought. Not every school is bad; not every child will do better in a home school environment over a public school. Not all parents are good or even adequate teachers. At least public school teachers have some minimum of an understanding of childhood development and have received instruction in how to be a good teacher. Even with the instruction, some will not be good at it. While some do, most home-schoolers do not have the advantage of having been educated in these areas as a public school teacher is required to do. As a result just like some public school teachers are not very good at it, some home-schooling parents are not very good at it.

***Or how about every poor, single mother on state assistance, since that is also a situation where most child deaths occur.***

This is a misguided statement. It is not as simple as that and I feel you are falling prey to some negative stereotyping. If you are interested in the true statistics around this, this study from the Journal of American Pediatrics is a good starting place: http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/109/4/615.short

People have been speaking out against the Pearls for as long as they’ve been publishing materials.

I have been for as long as I’ve heard of them.

And you still have to consider that these were adopted children. In the case of Sean Paddock, the very people you want to have monitor us PLACED him there, monitored him, checked on him and found NOTHING.

These children were adopted internationally, which I don’t know that much about but it is my understanding that there is follow up.

Not all homeschoolers are isolationist nor even Christian homeschoolers. Those that are tend to break the laws that already exist regarding reporting. There is no proof whatsoever that abuse is higher in a state like OK, where there is no monitoring than their is in New York where monitoring is regular.

You can’t assume anyone knew anything. That is just your anti-religious sentiment seeking to find justification and blame, and dragging millions of innocent people into your unbased disgust.

If you have no facts, nothing but baseless accusations originating only in your own interpretation of motives of people you never met, this conversation is over. It ceased to be productive after the first exchange.

Maybe you can direct some of your indignation toward CPS, since at least 39% of child deaths occur in families that were previously reported to CPS, a system that stood by and did nothing. Even in the face of mounting evidence, they were too overworked to see the signs they are TRAINED to spot. And in the foster system. Where most are loving and caring and open their homes, but there are far too many that continue the abuse.

Right under the monitoring you would have us all submit to. With teachers, and counselors and caseworkers….multiple people involved in a child’s life, trained to spot abuse, and yet it still gets missed.

So lets take every homeschooler…or how about every parent with a preschool age child even, since that is where most child deaths occur (in children under five). Or how about every poor, single mother on state assistance, since that is also a situation where most child deaths occur.

But no, let’s take homeschoolers, a population with no proven likelihood to abuse children at any higher rate, and monitor them all to make you feel better. And further overburden a system so that that many more valid abuse reports can go without the proper follow up.

The Pearls aren’t a “good Christian family.” They teach a different gospel from that most of us believe. It isn’t mainstream, it isn’t evangelical, it isn’t even “fundamentalist.” They preach a different gospel that doesn’t line up with any church I’ve ever attended.
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Those sick, sadistic, Satan-spawned child abusers have been raking in money from the sale of their books — and demonstration DVDs!!!! — for over fifteen years and it had to take the horrific, torturous, sadistic death of a little girl and the systematic near-fatal torture of her sister to get this seen by the outside world.

All it takes for evil to flourish is for supposedly good people to stand by and DO NOTHING.

The only reason you say anything NOW — now that the world sees what you people do to little children — is to cover your own butts. You’re deflectiing, is what you’re doing . You all need to be thoroughly investigated, and you need to be monitored.

The Pearls didn’t get where they are today because of the outside world, because of schools, public or private (and you really do have a ridiculously uninformed view of “schools” — educate yourself, you ignoramus — oh, wait…that’s the problem, isn’t it?). They got there because of the closed, backwoods enclaves of lunatics like you all, that’s how.

Lydia Schatz’s blood is on your hands, too — every one of you looney fake “Christians” and your creepy isolationist notions. You created the hidden, weird world in which all anyone has to do is slap a Jesus fish on their car and they’re “good, loving people who would never hurt their kids”.

Right.

People knew. They knew. And they said NOTHING because it was more important to protect their whacko homeschool world than to save children from unspeakable torture, or, worse, than to take a look in the mirror and realize they’re as evil and sadistic as the Pearls and the Schatzes.

Now we all know what you all really are and it’s time you were stopped.

Your comment displays more hateful sentiment than anything I’ve encountered in some time.

I’m sorry you are so angry, but it would do us all better to direct it at the abuser than random strangers trying to speak to others about a tragedy.

If you cannot be civil, future comments will be deleted.
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You can’t be trusted. You all need to be monitored and investigated regularly.

You are evil, hateful people.

When you stop the abuse that goes on IN the schools, we can talk.
When you stop the abuse that goes on IN state monitored group homes and foster homes where there is an entire system of monitoring, then we can talk.
When you stop the abuse that goes on IN homes of public schooled children every day that isn’t recognized, or is reported and CPS does nothing, then we can talk.

What was particularly disturbing in this case was the fact that despite everyone around this family, despite neighbors and friends and others who knew the family and the children, NO ONE suspected abuse.

There aren’t always signs.
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The sick torture manual the Pearls have written, which reads ten thousand times worse than the sickest BDSM porn you’ll find anywhere, has been on the market for over fifteen years. Barnes and Noble refuses to sell it. This recent child murder is not the first such murder perpetrated by following the Pearls’ torture manual.

That this stuff has been out there for this much time, that it has made a steady stream of income for those two evil, sadistic, sick, twisted, perverted demons, means there are thousands and thousands of children being regularly tortured and beaten, from infancy on up, at the hands of their evil, sick parents.

This has to be stopped.

Those who purchased the book need to be tracked down and investigated.

The book needs to be taken off the market. Anyone selling it or promoting it ought to be investigated for aiding and abetting the systematic torture of tiny children.

This murder proves that too many homeschoolers have something dark and sick to hide, therefore all homeschoolers are suspect and need to be monitored.

End of story.

You people are sick, sick, sick. May you rot in hell where you belong.

I am following the case as closely as possible and will be updating on my blog as more information is uncovered. And remember, some media sources are more like tabloids than actual ‘facts’. I found the Oroville paper to be more professional than the Chico ER. Chico ER is known for their whacky news stories. And they are anti God and anti homeschooling to begin with.

PLEASE pray for the family and our community. The outcome of this case may negatively affect the Christian and homeschool community as a whole.

:O(
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