VIDEOPosted on 02/03/2006 10:42:07 AM PST by newgeezer
By Josh Hinkle
KCRG-TV9 News
(Cedar Rapids - KCRG) -- There are strange questions about the man found guilty in the murder of Jeseta Gage. But evidence still lingers concerning Roger Bentley, suggesting ties to the occult. KCRG-TV9 News has proof that those ties go back more than a decade.
One piece of evidence that caught the victim's family off guard was the "Necromantic Ritual Book." Among other things, this book details the practice of using corpses to rause the spirit of the dead. The book was nothing new to Bentley; it's something he's had years to study.
A decade ago, Bentley was serving time as a sex offender at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility. He and another inmate filed a law suit against prison officials, alleging a violation of First Amendment and religious freedoms. Court documents show Bentley and the other man called themselves Luciferians, members of the Church of Satan.
Among other things, prison officials denied the pair four religious books. But one book, "The Necromantic Ritual Book," would follow Bentley for more than 10 years.
On trial for the murder and kidnapping of 10-year-old Jetseta Gage, Bentley's attorney, Peter Persaud, presented the book as evidence. Police found a copy of the book at Bentley's home in Brandon. They also found Bentley and Jetseta's body inside an abandoned trailer in rural Johnson County.
Persaud told jurors his client was an occultist who happened to find the girl's body, and then perform a sex act on it. On the phone, Persaud said, his reason for mentioning the book was to suggest that Bentley was practicing necrophilia or sexual contact with a corpse.
The jury didn't buy it.
A decade ago, prison officials and a judge had reason to deny Bentley the book. The judge said its practices "have no place in a prison setting... they are also illegal."
In the chapter about necrophilia, the book's author, Leilah Wendell, even cautions its use, saying it's "at best illegal in many places," and "I emphasize the use of utmost caustion in this working."
Bentley's attorney also brought up the occult when questioning the woman who first showed Bentley the abandoned trailer. She told the court that Bentley said he sensed three bodies on the property. It was a strange, if not bizarre tactic, one that did not persuade jurors in the end.
The jury found Bentley guilty of both the kidnapping and murder of Jetseta Gage.
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I'll also mention again that, in any case like this, the abductor-rapist in Iowa has everything to gain and nothing to lose by murdering his young victim. Why not eliminate the only eyewitness? Either way, he can only spend one life in prison. But, Iowa Dems refuse to debate the death penalty, allegedly because "everyone knows" it lacks the votes to pass the senate. I say BS. Force a vote, and it will pass, or a lot of legislators will lose reelection. Because, I think I saw where a Des Moines Register poll indicated 80% of Iowans favor the death penalty in such a case.
What places is it legal!
It may not be legal but there may not be a specific Statute against it. In Florida it was not till the atrocities of Ted Bundy came to light that a law was passed forbidding the desecration ( not sure if that was the legal term used) of bodies. Guess no one thought someone would be sick enough to defile a corpse.
At least no one can argue the act of Necrophilia is between two or more consenting adults.
What a convenient coincidence that would be - a sicko that wants to have sex with dead children just happens to stumble across a fresh one...the lawyer should join him in a solitary cell; maybe he also wants sex with dead lawyers and he might just stumble across one in the cell.
I wonder why citizens put up with this sort of thing in their communities?! See this in Eugene Oregon.
http://www.efn.org/~cophnia/
Oh God. I have three daughters, one of them 10. I want to cry. Crap like this makes me want to one day become a serial killer of these maniacs.
The fact that you can cry over this horror shows why you would never become a serial killer like the thing in this article. You still have morals, conscience and empathy all of which sociopaths lack.
Turn your anger to action. Find out if your State has a Megan's law. Find out what the penalties are for sexual abuse of children and if they are being enforced. And never stop praying for the missing children and their families.
Iowa's penalties for sexual abuse of children are touted as being among the toughest in the nation.
But, as I mentioned in the original post, absent the death penalty, the monster has nothing to lose and everything to gain when he decides to kill his victim. It's truly a no-brainer.
Aleister Crowley famous maxim was " Do As Thou Wilt is The Whole of The Law". To him total freedom was to be found in the full expression of one's own will. Christians know that True freedom is found in the full expression of God's will. In this age I fear too many embrace Crowley's philosophy without knowing just how opposed it is to a moral vision of the universe.
The killer certainly followed that teaching. He willed that an innocent, beautiful gift from God die and so he killed her.
But Jesus hears every cry and will not forget the sufferings of the blessed come judgement day. We can have hope in the sure knowledge that all innocents are safe in the arms of Jesus.
The State may not have a death penalty. But parents and families of the victims sure might. If I were on a jury and had to decide the fate of a parent who killed their child's molester. I would open the Champagne, pass the parent a $100.00 bill and say WELL DONE!!
That was beautiful and you are so right.
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