North Carolina Religious Leader Shoots 4 Year Old Boy To Death Because He Might Be Gay

[Ian David]

A religious leader in North Carolina shot to death his four-​year old step son because he thought the boy, Jadon Higganbothan, might be gay. The man, Peter Lucas Moses, 27, who also shot to death a 28-​year old woman, may face the death penalty.

Moses, whom police stopped short of calling a cult leader, lived in a one-​room home with nine children and three women. The 28-​year old woman, Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy, Moses killed had been beaten and strangled with an extension cord before Moses murdered her. The day he did, she had escaped to a neighbor’s house and begged her to use her cell phone. The neighbor did not call police because she claims she thought the woman might be mentally disturbed. She witnesses Moses dragging her into the house, and still never called police.

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More, via WRAL:

Moses beat her throughout most of the day, with the women joining in at least once, and tried to strangle her with an extension cord, according to the witness.

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The group threw a party a few days later, prosecutors recalled the witness saying, and Moses showed McKoy’s body to several relatives, including his mother Sheilda Evelyn Harris, 56, his brother P. Leonard Moses, 21, and his sister, Sheila Falisha Moses, 20.



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[maddezmom]

1. absolutely sickening

:cry:

[Rex]

2. These are the kind of people that give religion a black eye and

make secular people hate religion that much more imo. Cults are dangerous and lead to death, sometimes for all the members.

[mysuzuki2]

4. This guy gives other murderers a black eye!

[Initech]

47. No shit! He gives Dexter justification for his "moral code".

[atreides1]

18. There's a "kind"

Would that list include Tony Perkins, Pat Robertson, the Falwells, etc., or is it limited to this one individual?

[thereismore]

21. The only difference between a cult and a religious order is the number of followers. nt

[Incitatus]

22. And a religious order has more power and can do more harm. nt

[badhair77]

3. I am speechless

There is not an adequate punishment that fits these crimes.

[21st Century FDR]

48. Well, actually there is.

Jesus said that anyone who harms a child should have a millstone hung around his neck and be drowned at sea.

Since this asshole seems to like his own twisted version of "Biblical law", I say give him the sentence prescribed by JC Himself.

[bluestate10]

5. Bury that asshole under a jail-house. nt

[MrScorpio]

6. I'm speechless

[spanone]

7. religious leader my ass..

[Throd]

8. Every 4 year old "might be gay".

[Maru Kitteh]

34. This child was the only one in the household that wasn't the murderer's bio kid.

[banned from Kos]

9. what the fuck is wrong with people? I am disgusted with us.

in my hometown of Athens, Ga someone has cut the ears off of a dog.

http://www.11alive.com/news/article/197060/3/MADISON-CO-Pit-bull-puppy-mutilated

[RKP5637]

10. We have some very very sick people in this country masquerading under the

veil of being religious.

[provis99]

55. No True Scotsman.

[defendandprotect]

11. "Who ever said organized patriarchal religion is good for mental health?"

[RetiredTrotskyite]

12. This is Just....Sick

The relgious loonies seem to be getting loonier all the time. Shooting a 4 year old child because this psychopath thought he might be gay? And then beating and strangling a woman. This is why I stay away from patriarchal religion. If this guy is found guilty they can kill him for all I care.

[fascisthunter]

13. Fucking sick bastard

[LiberalAndProud]

14. Does anyone else think the neighbor should be held accountable?

Failure to report a crime, something?

That was almost as disturbing to me as the rest of the story. This is what nightmares are made of.

[surrealAmerican]

17. I do.

Was she also a member of this cult? The article doesn't give any information about her.

[LiberalAndProud]

52. She thought it was a group home for the mentally disturbed.

[FourScore]

19. Absolutely. n/t

[FreakinDJ]

36. A few more then just the neighbor

[Brother Buzz]

43. Outside of a small circle of friends

Look outside the window, there's a woman being grabbed

They've dragged her to the bushes and now she's being stabbed

Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain

But monopoly is so much fun, I'd hate to blow the game

And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody

Outside of a small circle of friends.

[Liberal_in_LA]

51. me

[mzteris]

15. he probably just didn't want the boy to talk

about the little games he and his step-dad played...

sick f'er.

[malaise]

16. Throw away the fugging keys

for that piece of scum

[Ohio Joe]

20. Fucking fundy nut jobs

They should prosecute the whole lot of them.

[Divine Discontent]

23. its too bad someone couldn't have protected that child from that monster

[ruggerson]

24. Exactly. And it's too bad that North Carolina and many of its churches

create the kind of environment where this kind of thing can occur.

[Fumesucker]

25. One man, three women and nine kids living in one room ... And he's worried the kid might be gay?

Eight other children watched a woman beaten to death over a long period and a child shot to death..

:cry:

[Maru Kitteh]

35. The dead kid is the only one that wasn't his biological child. n't

[Sapphocrat]

26. Ronnie Antonio Paris

"Life, Interrupted"

"Ronnie Antonio Paris (December 9, 2001 - January 28, 2005) was a three-year-old African American boy who lived with his parents in Tampa, Florida. He died on January 28, 2005, due to brain injuries stemming from severe abuse at the hands of his father, who thought the child would turn out to be gay, and forced the boy to box with him in an effort to keep him from growing up 'soft' or becoming a 'sissy.'

"In May 2002, the Florida Department of Children and Family Services removed Ronnie from his home and placed him in protective custody, after he was admitted to the hospital for repeated vomiting, and doctors determined he was undernourished and had a broken arm.

"On December 14, 2004, five days after his third birthday, Ronnie was returned to his parents. ..."

[Johnny Harpo]

27. The Whole Family Sounds Like A Bunch Of Wack Jobs...n/t

[krispos42]

28. Insane.

Just... holy shit.

[XanaDUer]

29. The neighbor is an idiot

nt.

[donheld]

30. OMMFG!

[beyurslf]

31. Fry him. And that neighbor should spend a lifetime in prison too.

[xchrom]

32. A very sad recommend. Nt

[JI7]

33. how did authorities find out what happened ?

i didn't read the whole article so i don't know if it was mentioned there. but it says the neighbor didn't do anything so who reported it or how did authorities find out ?

[LiberalAndProud]

41. One woman escaped.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/9836148/

Prosecutors said the case came to police's attention in February when a young woman escaped from a house at 2109 Pear Tree Lane house, where she had lived with McKoy, Jadon, eight other children and three women charged in connection with the two slayings – Jadon's mother, Vania Rae Sisk, 25, Lavada Quinzetta Harris, 40, and Larhonda Renee Smith, 40.

[BlueIris]

37. Beyond disturbing. nt

[progressoid]

38. This makes me ill.

[mmonk]

39. Calling him a religious leader is deceiving. He headed up a small cult.

[Heywood J]

42. Like a priest in a parish?

Or like one of those Christian Dominionists with his flock?

[FreeState]

44. So religous cults are not religions? N/T

[Arugula Latte]

50. How is that different from a religion?

[justiceischeap]

57. When I studied theology in college, many believe that Mormonism is a cult

It's just a very large one. There are some that believe the Pentecostal sect is a cult as well. If you look at the definition of cult, many of these extreme right wing mega churches could be considered cult-like as well.

[DiverDave]

40. This thing needs to live?

I have a hard time with my anti death penalty stance when I hear about things like this.

But, after I think about it he HAS to be sick, else how could he and the others have done what they did?



Life in prison for ALL who participated. period.

[plantwomyn]

58. You have to believe that he has sick

because your mind refused to acknowledge that evil like this exists. Sadly, it does. And even more sadly there are many religions that believe that this man had dominion over his wife and could therefore force her to comply with his wishes.

We can look at this man as mentally ill but in reality he merely did what he believed the bible told him was his right as a husband and father. Even killing his wife and child is NOT forbidden by the bible if they transgressed. It doesn't matter whether he was right, it was his decision to make according to biblical teachings. This is what Christian sharia law looks like.

[Quantess]

45. Horrible.

[Wind Dancer]

46. There are no words!

What a heartbreaking story. :cry:

[Liberal_in_LA]

49. so it's ok with neighbor that a woman is dragged off if she's mentally unstabled?

:-(

[Blasphemer]

53. Sociopathy cloaking itself in religion

And WTF is wrong with her neighbor? A terrified neighbor wants to call the police and you decide to sit in judgment of their mental state? How about letting the authorities make that determination? And to not call the police after seeing obvious signs of domestic violence? That poor boy was probably terrorized for the entirety of his short-lived life and it seems that no one close to him could be bothered to care.

[prayin4rain]

54. What in the world is going on out there?? That is disgusting. Look at that beautiful child :'(

[TK421]

56. fuckstick n/t