Fundies Gone Wild: More on the Florida Exorcism.

[trumad]

Check out what the wacky Vice Mayor says at the end:

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Their 18-year-old daughter Danielle Rogers, a Stetson University student who was at an undisclosed protected location Saturday, was covered with olive oil when police arrived at the family's home June 27, according to a police report.

Danielle Rogers told police her father said the ritual was an effort to "get the demons out of her" and that her shirt and bra were ripped as she and her family struggled. Her family claimed Danielle Rogers tore off her own shirt and ripped her pants open in an effort to expose herself to her father, police wrote.

"Do you believe in God?" Daniel Rogers, 47, kept asking, twisting his daughter's arm, she told police.

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Edgewater council member Harriet Rhodes said Debra Rogers, an accountant, is known as religiously zealous and used to leave religious tracts for a former city manager. Rhodes said Rogers is entitled to her beliefs, but if the reports are substantiated, she went too far.

"I think it should be investigated, and if it's true, maybe they all need some family counseling," Rhodes said.

The former manager, Ken Hooper, said Debra Rogers also left notes, e-mails and voice mails with biblical phrases, and he considered that "strange."

"I've never had that happen before," said Hooper.

Debra, Daniel and Christina Rogers told police that Danielle Rogers has been confrontational and "out of control." A police officer wrote that he arrived at the home in response to a call from Christina and found Daniel Rogers holding Danielle Rogers, who was screaming and trying to break free. Both were covered in oil, which also had dripped onto the wood floor, creating a slippery mess. A lamp and other items were broken, the officer said. Danielle Rogers told the officer that her father had tried to "anoint her with oil to get Satan out," and dumped it on her head. Christina and her parents told police that Danielle knocked a large jug of oil out of her father's hands, causing it to spill.

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Edgewater Vice Mayor Dennis Vincenzi said whatever happened is personal, and he hopes it will not affect Rogers' work on the council. He described the couple as caring parents and said Debra Rogers does a "great job" for the city.

"A lot of people I've noticed turn to their religious faith when there are family problems and that's probably what they're doing," Vincenzi said.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-exorcism1507jul15,0,1803128.story?coll=orl_tab01_layout

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[tanyev]

1. Now I'm wondering what else that father has done to that poor girl.

[theoldman]

2. Looks like the mayor can use some counseling too.

The mother is obviously a nut case.

[trumad]

3. I'm wondering if it was Virgin Olive Oil?

[smokey nj]

4. E.V.O.O. gets out the E-V-I-L!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. The Father Must Be Like Samuel Jackson's Character In "Black Snake Moan"

eom

[Red Zelda]

6. Welcome to Dumbfuckistan

[Toasterlad]

7. Lock. Those. Freaks. Up.

[Maestro]

8. If I were their kid, I'd be nucking futs too!

At 18, can she file charges against her own parents? :shrug:

[Le Taz Hot]

9. I'm guessing she's the only

sane one in the family. Hell, I'd be fighting my ass off too if daddy was chasing me around with a bottle of oil trying to "cleans" me. Holy shit!

[Ilsa]

10. That poor girl. I hope she has some place to go live her life

while her parents are in a mental hospital, because that's where they belong, initially. Then they should go to jail for assault and battery.

[LWolf]

11. At least her skin will be soft.

:wow:

As an 18 yo, she did not have to participate in such a ritual.

It takes time, though, to overcome years of religious and authoritarian conditioning.

I hope she will get the opportunity to grow away from that conditioning.

[hootinholler]

12. So, was it Extra-Virgin?

The Olive oil! What were you thinking?

Gonna wash that demon right outta my hair!

-Hoot

[JacquesMolay]

13. good one m8

... that's :D They might argue in court that it wasn't really an exorcism, they just wanted her getting some of those good Omega-3 fats.

[JacquesMolay]

14. Btw, this Church lady ..

.... looks bonkers.