Christian Florida Couple Raped 13-Year-Old Girl 500 Times Because God Said It’s OK

[KamaAina]

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/08/13/christian-florida-couple-raped-13-year-old-girl-500-times-because-god-said-its-ok-video/

A Florida couple has been arrested for years of physical and sexual abuse of a teenage girl. The unnamed victim was sent to live with Rob and Marie Johnson of Port St. Lucie after her mother died nine years ago — and according to the girl, now 21-years-old, she was subjected to horrific physical and sexual abuse almost from the moment she moved in with the Johnsons.

The Johnsons are true, die-hard, Old Testament Christians, at least in the sense that they believe in the Biblical definition of marriage — that a man may have multiple wives, all of whom are his property. When their victim moved in with them at only 13 years old, she learned quite a lot about God’s love. Before exiting middle school, the girl was an unwilling participant in violations of her body by the Christian couple. Forced to call Rob Johnson “Master,” she says she endured five years of sexual and physical torture before finally moving away to Indiana.

The Johnsons, unwilling to allow their control over the girl to rest solely with the Bible, threatened to release her into state custody if she didn’t have sex with them — something that happened more than 500 times, according to the victim. While she initially tried to resist, she says Marie Johnson pushed her against the wall and held her by the throat until she submitted to the couple’s depraved demands. She says she was beaten when she did not follow the couple’s directions or do her chores.

While raping and abusing the girl, Rob Johnson “held Sunday school classes for his family at their home, invoking Old Testament Bible passages to justify the actions,” the Toronto Sun reports. The girl was not permitted to attend a real school, and was instead homeschooled. She was not permitted to use the phone, was made to sleep in the same room as her abusers, and was forced to rehearse excuses when and if a doctor asked her about her sexual activity.

[Thinkingabout]

1. It is bad to have abused this young lady but to have continued this for years is just sick.

They are perverts.

[roguevalley]

16. these people are insane on their own. they didnt need help from anyone else and the

religion thing is a cover for their insanity and pedophilia

[WinkyDink]

2. The NT supercedes the OT for a real Christian.

[Gore1FL]

24. It's all a cafeteria. n/t

[narnian60]

25. Yes.

[hatrack]

27. "Mr. True Scotsman, Mr. Noah True Scotsman, please pick up the cliche phone."

.

[AwakeAtLast]

34. And that's what got Jesus killed

Lots of OT diehards, kind of sounds like fundamentalists, huh?

[pnwmom]

3. I hope they lock them up and throw away the key.

After a trial, of course.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

28. Welding the cage shut is safer.

[Rex]

4. Sounds like the couple could be part of ISIS.

Fundamentalism is a global disease.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. Glad they were arrested and are being prosecuted

There are still places in the world where whacko fundyism rape is a crime.

[malaise]

6. I am convinced that a lot of the Fundie home schooling is to cover

up what's going on at home.

Throw away the keys - imagine losing your mother and then having to deal with these depraved monsters.

[LuvNewcastle]

41. I think so, too.

Fundies tend to live double lives. There's the life they present to other church members and co-workers and such, and then there's the life they live at home. It's impossible to follow all the rules the 'inerrant' Bible has for them, so they pick and choose which ones to follow. Once they start doing that, it's a matter of time before they just do whatever they want and finding biblical justification for it, and sometimes they justify some sick shit. It makes sense, because a lot of fundies have mental issues or they wouldn't be fundies in the first place.

[appalachiablue]

7. K & R. Monsters

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Arrrrrgghhh!

[Arugula Latte]

9. Oh, right, because it's such a benevolent and "loving" god ...

and I'm sure this is all part of its Grand Plan.

[Journeyman]

10. No explanation for why the girl was sent to this couple after her Mother's death . . .

Is she related to them? Were they foster parents?

And however they entered this young girl's life, why wasn't someone from the State there to watch over this young girl's welfare?

[Lee-Lee]

11. Since social services were not watching, it was probably a family placement

I suspect they are not saying as much to protect her privacy, giving a relationship would make getting her identity pretty easy.

[Journeyman]

12. That makes sense. . .

I suspected it was a family arranged situation.

Wish the family had thought enough of her to follow up.

[struggle4progress]

15. ... Rob .. is a cousin of the girl’s mother ...

Florida couple kept teen relative as sex slave
BY JASON SILVERSTEIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Thursday, August 13, 2015, 3:03 PM
Updated: Friday, August 14, 2015, 9:36 AM
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-couple-teen-relative-sex-slave-5-years-article-1.2324771

[Journeyman]

17. Guess he just figured he'd won the genetic jackpot . . .

Jackass. I hope he gets everything he deserves.

[walkthewalkorstfu]

13. Don't know what's worse God as an excuse to fly planes into buildings or raping kids

However, what I do know is religion is the common problem.

[smirkymonkey]

14. Absolutely disgusting. I think that religious fundamentalism should be declared

a mental disorder. It causes so much harm, especially to children. Personally, I think these people should be shot.

[SidDithers]

18. Religion is an insult to human dignity...nt

Sid

[cherokeeprogressive]

32. What a crock of shit.

Far more people have used it as a crutch than have used it as a weapon.

[mr blur]

36. No, Sid's quite correct.

You think that using fantasy to support delusions is a good thing?

[cherokeeprogressive]

37. You are telling me Faith has NEVER helped anyone get through a tough time?

Telling me also that Faith has never informed someone's decision that might have been the wrong choice (just one more line, one more bump, and I'll start doing better tomorrow)?

That's a crock of shit as well.

[arithia]

40. Faith and religion are two different things

Faith is belief and varies from person to person. Religion is doctrine defining the cultural norms, behaviors and mythologies of the culture that spawned it and is passed down through the generations.

Religion evolved as a form of sociopolitical and economic control as humanity changed from hunter-gatherer societies to agrarian ones thousands and thousands of years ago. Simply put, it was the law before there was the law (as we now know it).

[Doctor_J]

19. Alas, the Florida constabulary and judiciary disagree

the Johnsons can take it up with god right after they die in prison.

[jberryhill]

20. I never hear any so-called "moderate Christians" condemn this stuff

[Mariana]

23. They claim the perpetrators aren't really Christians.

Christians, you see, just don't ever commit evil acts of any kind. Only non-Christians do things like that. Therefore, these people and others like them can't possibly be Christians.

[KamaAina]

31. No true Scotsman...

[Mariana]

33. Well, it does make it absolutely fucking clear

what they think of non-Christians.

[whatthehey]

26. Oh they mealy-mouth condemnation, but are far quicker to call NTS

After all to them no REAL Christian can do anything bad because of their shared faith, so moderate believers are very quick to say it's all "cover" and the offenders aren't real Christians at all, smugly washing their hands of the monstrous effects they all help create by wrapping religion in a special privilege so it can never be acceptably criticized or asked to demonstrate its validity like any other idea.

If a person says Venusians are telling them to do something, they are roundly laughed at, and if they persist in the delusion they are told and eventually forced to seek mental health care. If they say a socially acceptable god (Zeus is a no-no, but Allah and Jesus are A-OK) is telling them to do something, the majority say it's wonderful to have such a strong vocation and nastily shush and marginalize any pesky unbeliever who asks why there is a difference in the two situations. When these people are treated equally, we'll see less of such behavior.

[struggle4progress]

29. There are laws against this behavior, and given the demography of the US

the majority of the legislators who vote for those laws are Christian. People who engage in this behavior are arrested when the accusation is made, and given the demography of the US the majority of the police who arrest such offenders are Christian. Prosecutions typically follow such arrests, and given the demography of the US the majority of the prosecutors are Christian. Juries are not afraid to convict in such cases, and given the demography of the US the majority of jurors are Christian. Judges often sentence offenders to significant terms, and given the demography of the US the majority of judges are Christian. The entire system is paid for with tax-payer dollars; and stories like this are often covered in the press; so tax-payers know they're paying to prosecute people like this -- and, of course, given the demography of the US, the majority of those taxpayers are Christian

[Snobblevitch]

38. You are out of your mind.

Do you personally interact with any Christians? If so, print out this story, hand it to them, wait for them to read it, and ask if they approve of such actions.

[snort]

21. Same reasoning used by ISIS.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. God-botherers bother a lot more than just god. nt

[Stuart G]

30. K and R... Released on $60,000, bond for each...

that is not enough...a million each...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/florida-couple-teen-relative-sex-slave-5-years-article-1.2324771

[MineralMan]

35. Yikes! This kind of situation is probably far more common

that we realize. Shocking and disgusting.

[Snobblevitch]

39. This couple are the definition of pure evil.

This story has nothing to do with Christianity. They obviously did not actually believe in the teachings of Christ or they would never have done something as abhorrent as this.

[Wounded Bear]

42. Funny how cooperative God can be about people's destructive urges...

Hey, if He says it's OK, who am I to go against the flow?



Far too many people going this route in ALL religions.

[strategery blunder]

43. Ironically the story of Sodom and Gomorrah had no effect upon these fundies

And I say this as one of those "moderate Christians" who is broad brushed upthread, btw...

Not even the most backward interpretation of the OT can "justify" this...apparently these fundies conveniently forgot about God's judgment against the perpetrators demanding that Lot give his guests over to them to be raped.

Seems pretty analogous to what happened here. At any rate, I hardly need to "go there" to recognize this as some sick shit. If ever there is a time to make WBC-type pronouncements, this case would be it.

The scale of this atrocity is beyond what I can even comprehend. I'm left speechless for the victim.