If there’s anything worse than kids anymore, it’s their goddamn parents, and while children have an excuse to believe in invisible men and fairy tales, their guardians in this already harsh enough world should have woken up to reality a long time ago. By forcing their prejudices and beliefs on their children in their early formative years, they not only scar them for life mentally, but many times physically as well, all in the name of something that they’ve been too afraid to question all these years. Our first example comes from Oregon; a lovely couple from Beavercreek (Do you need more explanation?) let a mass of blood vessels grow over their infant daughter’s eye to the size of a tennis ball because they figured god would just magically make it disappear. Now they’re facing first-degree criminal mistreatment charges…
The Wylands’ 7-month-old daughter, Alayna, was placed in state custody earlier this month after child-welfare workers received a tip about the untreated and ballooning growth. Doctors said that the condition could cause permanent damage or loss of vision.
The Wylands and their church reject medical care in favor of faith-healing — anointing with oil, laying on of hands, prayer and fasting. The parents testified at a juvenile court hearing last week that they never considered getting medical attention for Alayna. According to court documents, Rebecca Wyland anointed Alayna with oil each time she changed the girl’s diaper and wiped away the yellow discharge that seeped daily from the baby’s left eye.
The area started swelling, and the fast-growing mass of blood vessels, known as a hemangioma, eventually caused her eye to swell shut and pushed the eyeball down and outward and started eroding the eye socket bone around the eye. It’s rare to see a child with an advanced hemangioma because the condition typically is treated as soon as it’s detected, said a doctor who testified at a hearing before Van Dyk last week.
A little faith in god never hurt anybody, right? Tell that to little Alayna, but make sure you tell it to her right side, so she can actually see what the face of an apologist asswipe looks like. That way, when she’s older and hopefully taken away from these brainwashed psychopaths completely, she’ll know who deserves to have anointing oil pumped into every open orifice next time they catch the common cold. While the custody battle is still up in the air, the article does leave us with a great end note…
Timothy Wyland was a widower when he married Rebecca Wyland two years ago. Wyland’s first wife, Monique, died of breast cancer in 2006. She had not sought or received medical treatment for the condition, said Dr. Christopher Young, a deputy state medical examiner who signed the death certificate.
Well, the power of Jesus juju worked so well the first time, why not let your bet against the fates ride once again, right? You’ll notice in the countless stories like these that it’s never the parents who are suffering from the lack of medical treatment, but their defenseless children who can’t (or have been convinced not to) help themselves. At least Monique had the decency to drop dead before bearing a child that she and Mr. Wyland could torture. This time, 44-year-old Timothy chose the impressionably young Rebecca, about half his age at 23, to birth the fruit(cake) of his loins.
If that story doesn’t make you think twice about “honoring your mother and father,” I don’t know what will. Oh wait, I do – Part 2 of this series. Check back soon for another story that’s guaranteed to make you cross your legs in pain…that is, if you still have anything left down there to feel it when these parents are through with you.
