Jonathan A. Powell may look like the kind of normal person you’d run into on the street or grocery store, but it turns out this guy is a ultraconservative and extremely strict father who is fond of quoting the Bible while he assaults his 11-year-old daughter.
Powell was in court yesterday, and his daughter testified that in January while she and her sister were visiting Dad for the weekend, he got angry with her and decided he had the perfect punishment. As the girl recalled:
“He was hitting me with his elbows, his upper arms, and his hands.”
Then Papa Powell pulled a pack of frozen bacon from the freezer and began hitting the defenseless girl in the head with it! WTF?! The daughter told the judge:
“He was hitting me with frozen bacon and he was pushing me back and I fell right over the dishwater. I broke it. He was just yelling that the dishwasher was broken.”
Seeking refuge in her bedroom, the child said that did no good, either:
“I ran over to my room and my sister was asking me what was wrong. I was in my room for a while. I heard him swearing, saying, ‘You B-word, you broke my dishwasher.'”
Entering the room, the father then allegedly continued to assault his daughter for over ten minutes, leaving her with a bloody nose. When she complained, he told her:
“He said, ‘It’s OK to do that, it’s from the Bible — if you spare the rod, you spoil the child.’ He just said that.”
Powell was charged with third-degree child abuse, and could receive up to two years in prison if convicted.
Perhaps if Powell had read the Bible–especially the Old Testament–more closely, he would have known that pork is not at all kosher, and to even touch that pack of bacon made him unclean for 24 hours. No doubt he was far too busy planning his next assault on his daughter.
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