Share to: Welcome to post comments I want to comment. According to a report on February 13 by China News citing South Korea's JoongAng Daily, the secret recipe for Empress Dowager Cixi's breast enhancement has been revealed. Recently, a South Korean couple beat their sick child with a belt and a flyswatter in an attempt to exorcise demons, and it was only after several days that the deaths of three children were discovered.
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According to the report, Mr. Park and his wife moved here in March 2009 and often gathered 16 local residents for missionary activities. The children began to fall ill in January this year, when the youngest daughter among the four siblings, who was one year old, caught a cold first. Subsequently, the other three also fell ill one by one, all suffering from high fever.
Apart from more than ten believers, Mr. Park had almost no contact with others, and almost no one knew he had four children. Residents introduced that his church seemed very concerned about making contact with others, which was different from general churches. Since 1999, Mr. Park started practicing religion at a church in his hometown, Jin Island County of South Jeolla Province. He took part in the college entrance examination after dropping out of high school in Gwangju. During the investigation, the police learned that he advocated the Brethren Church and had not studied in a regular theological school or received ordination as a pastor.
Mr. Park stated that initially, in order to fast and pray with laying on of hands, they resorted to violence, "as the Bible says, to drive away evil spirits." Hwang Seok-hyun (phonetic), the head of the violent crime unit of the South Jeolla Provincial Police Department said: "We are investigating whether the violent beating during the prayer process was the direct cause of death." On the same day, the Buan Police Station of South Jeolla Province applied for an arrest warrant against Mr. Park and his wife on suspicion of causing death by injury.
Professor Hwang Sang-min of Yonsei University said: "This tragedy stemmed from the blind religious superstition of the two parents, leading them to make wrong choices," "This incident warns us of how dangerous it is to blindly believe in gods or miracles."
The police are currently investigating this case, tracing whether it is related to domestic violence. The forensic doctor found on February 12: "There are traces of violence on multiple parts of the bodies." The police confirmed from the suspects that "in order to catch ghosts, they beat the children with belts and flyswatters, each child was beaten four times, 39 strokes each time." Mr. Park claimed, "This is based on the content in the Bible that 'the Jews whipped (Apostle Paul) 39 times, five times.'"
At around 9:50 am on February 11, Mr. Lee went to a church in Pocheon-eup, Buan-gun, South Jeolla Province, to find his nephew because he hadn't seen the children for several days and was very worried. Previously, he had called several times to inquire, but the children's parents, Mr. Park and Ms. Cho, just said "the children are sick" and didn't let them answer the phone. Feeling puzzled by the disappearance of the children, Mr. Lee broke in through the window directly. In a room of about 16.5 square meters, there was a smell of decay. The three siblings had been dead for over 10 days, their bodies turned black, and they lay there with quilts covering them up to their waists.
On January 10 and 20, Mr. Park led his younger son and youngest daughter to a pediatric hospital in Hosun-gun and got medicine for a week, all for treating bronchitis. They gave comprehensive cold medicine to their 10-year-old eldest daughter and 8-year-old eldest son.
After that, this couple began fasting and praying, but it had no effect. At 10 pm on February 1, the eldest son passed away. The eldest daughter and the second son also died successively at 5 am and 7 am on February 2. The eldest daughter showed symptoms of vomiting. The police recounted: "The two believed that fasting and praying could bring their deceased children back to life, so they took turns fasting."