This was not religous teaching, it was torture.inflicted by a phsycopath.

I was beat regularly as a child of Jehovah's witness parents. I was made to wear signs around my mechanic, asking the neighborhood that read "I'm a bed wetter.". (I was 12). I was made to wear wet underwear over my head onto a school bus with my dad following behind me and threatening a beating if he saw me remove them. I was allowed to take them off my head when I reached the school and got off of the school bus. I was locked in closets for weeks at a time with a "water bowl", one meal every two or three days and no toilet. I had to pick long switches which my mother would braid then my dad would beat me with them from the top of the head to the soles of my feet. People would see the whelps on my body in gym but no one talked in those days. My dad made a paddle he called the bruiser that he had holes drilled into... When getting hit with it the skin would suck up into those holes and cause massive bloody whelps. I could go on...

My brothers even had it worse than me.... Heads talked through walls, kicked down flights of stairs, broken bones, cracked skills... Must of my brothers have piss L severe psychological problems still today, some thirty or more years later.

This was the 70's when there was no such thing as social services... It was "none of our business" back in those days.

At least we have social services these days that I'm so thankful for, for today's kids.

Most hardcore religious sects actually encourage physical child abuse. Many look away from child sexual abuse.

They all practice psychological abuse to varying degrees.

So,,,,has the dad been arrested yet? Is the mother complicit or is she another victim? Siblings?

Wow!