We saw this bizarre and disgusting story from Idaho, where the wife of a child molester declined to turn him in due to "religious beliefs." The convicted molester, with the cartoonish name of Lester Kester (Molester), faces up to life in prison when he's sentenced next week for molesting five children over a span of twenty years. Sarah Kester and her husband are members of a faith healing cult that has been accused of allowing children to die due to lack of medicine and care.The Idaho Statesman reports:
"The Sheriff’s Office has said Sarah Kester told detectives that she attempted to protect the children through praying for 'the demon' to leave her husband and by attempting to keep him busy with other tasks, because she did not want to bring law enforcement into what she termed personal matters.
The Kesters are members of the Followers of Christ Church in Canyon County, a religion that believes in faith healing. The church has been accused for years of allowing children to suffer and even die because it does not believe in modern medicine; it relies on prayer to cure the ill. Fundamentally, the Followers of Christ believe that pharmaceuticals are the product of Satan, and if they give their children medicine, the child will be sent to hell.'” (our emphasis)They seem normal. What is it about these religious nutbags that drives them to acts of cruelty, crime and perversion? They'd be the first to condemn atheists and non-believers for "sinning", while drowning in it themselves. This detachment from reality is clearly a form of mental illness that seems to be shared among religious cultists and fundamentalists.
(photo: Canyon County, ID Jail)
