Posted on 11/18/2017 5:58:46 AM PST by metmom
A British man sentenced to life behind bars earlier this year for beating his 2-day-old daughter to death was himself found dead in his prison cell Sunday, murdered by a fellow prisoner.
Liam Deane, 22, was killed by prisoner John Westland, 28, who was charged afterward and appeared in court for his initial hearing this Tuesday, according to the Yorkshire Evening Post.
While the nature of the murder — specifically, how and why it was committed — remains unclear, it’s known that Deane was sentenced to life in prison in October for the horrific murder of his daughter, Luna.
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I think the headline writer was just going for the parallelism and didn’t care about the facts.
Tough story. My sympathies to your family.
“there was no victim. he slipped on a bar of soap.”
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Every abortionist and supporter of it should suffer pains similar to the aborted child; and some day, they will, forever. But the souls of the aborted babies go straight to Heaven to enjoy the bliss of being in the prrsence of the Savior; forever.
That has to be tough to handle. I can’t imagine the grief in your family. Bless all of you and the new little one! AND the poor mother of the baby in the UK story.
If there be any morality in murder, this is it.
Is this any worse than tearing the limbs off a baby or sticking scissors in the baby’s head? Anyone who condemns this murder ought to think about this if they support legalized murder of babies.
Yes, the hypocrisy is plain to see as those who are advocating for unlimited abortion could kill that baby legally just two days before in equally or more brutal ways.
So it seems.
What goes around, comes around.
I doubt this now-dead biological parent was married to the mother.
In the days before birth control, families used to keep their daughters home before marriage and supervise their courtship. My Italian-American Catholic neighbor who was born in 1918 (may she rest in peace) told me she and her husband courted for five years, and he lived less than one city block away. He would come over in the evening and they would sit on the sofa, with her parents nearby (the living room, dining room and kitchen all adjoined) and her grandmother seated in between them! They were married in 1940, after he had established himself in a trade and had joined a union. They had two kids and were happily married 48 years, until he died.
God's forgiveness is not an automatic doorprize when one dies. The Bible is clear that repentance is the key to receiving forgiveness from God and avoiding eternal damnation. Those who sincerely repent and ask God for forgiveness (being sorry he got caught is not the same thing) are the ones who get forgiven.
God knows all the circumstances of our lives, down to every hair on our heads. UK's working-class youth are raised in an environment that openly mocks God, trashes any trace of pride in their heritage, advertises immorality and pushes drugs on them through sociolegal corruption. If this stupid clod commited this drastic crime while on drugs—and most probably against a background of negligence, poverty and ignorance by his and the birthmother's parents—God will take all of it into account.
In prison, he may have been forced into sobriety from drugs and alcohol for the first time in his life since childhood (or even before, if his mother drank or drugged during pregnancy), during which time he may have been able to see his horrible sin clearly, because God gives each of us an inborn conscience. We don't know if this miserable sinner repented after his arrest and conviction and before his death; but God knows.
There was a little old Italian lady in one church I attended who came over from Italy where she was married.
She met her husband on their wedding day.
It wasn't that strict. But when I lived among working-class Italian Catholics in this country a few years ago, I was struck by how diligently they still prepared their grown children for successful and presumably permanent marriages. Being working class, they could not count on having piles of money to bail out boomerang kids or grandchildren in a hell of divorce and custody suits. Nor did they typically put their aging parents in nursing homes, but expected to take care of them at home when they were old. Some of the families were preparing for a widowed grandparent, for instance, to give their house as a wedding gift and go live with their own child, the parent(s) of the engaged grandchild. They had to feel certain that there would not be a divorce coming along in a couple of years and the house be sold off or given to the in-law and their subsequent live-in (which would violate their Catholic conscience about marriage).
There is no 'god', but when God does come again, make sure to criticize Him for not doing what you think was His job. That will work out well for you I'm sure. Nothing like a pagan lecture on 'god'.
Parable of the Vineyard Workers. Matthew 20:1-16
20 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius[a] for the day and sent them into his vineyard.
3 “About nine in the morning he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went.
“He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. 6 About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, ‘Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
7 “‘Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
“He said to them, ‘You also go and work in my vineyard.’
8 “When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’
9 “The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius. 10 So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 ‘These who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, ‘and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
13 “But he answered one of them, ‘I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? 14 Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. 15 Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
16 “So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”
'Someone like this'. Before God we are all 'someone like this'. Without saving faith we are no different.
Yes, I know.
Each one of us has the potential within ourselves to be as bad as the person we condemn.
It’s just a matter of how much self-control we exercise in resisting those impulses.
Nevertheless, I still struggle in cases like this.
Why is it that I can’t help but smirk at this story?
Well you certainly bring up an interesting scenario - one that most people who remain asleep at the wheel never bother to ponder or ignore!
Not sure if you’re religious or not, but I challenge you to read these verses carefully and think about the days we’re living in.
2 Thessalonians 3:1-7
1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. 6 For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth
And read these verses too for further proof.
Romans 1:18-32
Cause we like to see justice here on earth.
And now the guy knows how that poor baby felt.
Much easier to dish it out than take it.
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