Hemant Mehta reports on a case of religious cruelty now before the courts in Michigan. 

As we posted a few days ago, Tatiana Elena Fusari and Seth Michael Welch were recently charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of their daughter Mary.

Mary, who only lived to be 10 months old, was very skinny at the end of her life due to malnutrition and dehydration. Her parents did nothing about it, citing religious reasons for not taking her to a doctor. Presumably, they thought God would just magically take care of everything.

They were recently in Kent County Court in Michigan to hear the charges and potential sentences against them, and a video of their reactions made its way online.

Allow me to narrate.

Initially, when the judge begins reading the charges, Welch (left) and Fusari remain defiant.

Then Fusari (right) learns that the charges against them include murdering their own daughter. Welch can’t believe it.

Oh no! The judge says a guilty verdict could mean spending life in prison without parole… and Welch realizes God will not get him out of jail. 

Is anyone else hearing this shit? Welch seems to ask as he looks around for sympathy. 

Then the judge mentions the other charge: intentionally hurting the child. Fusari seems very disturbed by this, even though not taking your emaciated daughter to a doctor is literally a way of intentionally hurting her. 

Finally, the judge explains that the penalty for the child abuse charge is also potential imprisonment. Suddenly, Welch tries to do the math in his head, not realizing two prison sentences can be served concurrently. 

Here’s the whole video in all its glory:



As one Redditor noted, it appears that Fusari reacts to the charges against their child, as if she never meant to hurt her daughter, while Welch reacts to the potential punishments against them. That looks about right to me.

Still, I don’t have any sympathy for Fusari. How many months did she do nothing while her daughter starved right in front of her? She chose not to take care of the child. She chose not to see a doctor. Just because she didn’t mean for Mary to die doesn’t mean she’s not responsible for Mary’s death.
Welch, on the other hand, has been infuriating throughout this ordeal.

Welch has posted about Child Protective Services, a distrust of doctors and religious beliefs on Facebook. He called doctors “priesthoods of the medical cult” and spoke in one video post about refusing to get his children vaccinated.
“The righteous shall live by faith. It’s God who is sovereign over disease and those sorts of things and, of course, ultimately deaths,” he said.

God is “sovereign over disease,” says the man who saw an eye doctor for his glasses. If they are indeed found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, it’s because they deserve it.


Hemant Mehta blogs @ Friendly Atheist 

Follow Hemant Mehta on Twitter @hemantmehta

These Christians Just Realized They Face Life In Prison For Killing Their Baby

Hemant Mehta reports on a case of religious cruelty now before the courts in Michigan. 

As we posted a few days ago, Tatiana Elena Fusari and Seth Michael Welch were recently charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of their daughter Mary.

Mary, who only lived to be 10 months old, was very skinny at the end of her life due to malnutrition and dehydration. Her parents did nothing about it, citing religious reasons for not taking her to a doctor. Presumably, they thought God would just magically take care of everything.

They were recently in Kent County Court in Michigan to hear the charges and potential sentences against them, and a video of their reactions made its way online.

Allow me to narrate.

Initially, when the judge begins reading the charges, Welch (left) and Fusari remain defiant.

Then Fusari (right) learns that the charges against them include murdering their own daughter. Welch can’t believe it.

Oh no! The judge says a guilty verdict could mean spending life in prison without parole… and Welch realizes God will not get him out of jail. 

Is anyone else hearing this shit? Welch seems to ask as he looks around for sympathy. 

Then the judge mentions the other charge: intentionally hurting the child. Fusari seems very disturbed by this, even though not taking your emaciated daughter to a doctor is literally a way of intentionally hurting her. 

Finally, the judge explains that the penalty for the child abuse charge is also potential imprisonment. Suddenly, Welch tries to do the math in his head, not realizing two prison sentences can be served concurrently. 

Here’s the whole video in all its glory:



As one Redditor noted, it appears that Fusari reacts to the charges against their child, as if she never meant to hurt her daughter, while Welch reacts to the potential punishments against them. That looks about right to me.

Still, I don’t have any sympathy for Fusari. How many months did she do nothing while her daughter starved right in front of her? She chose not to take care of the child. She chose not to see a doctor. Just because she didn’t mean for Mary to die doesn’t mean she’s not responsible for Mary’s death.
Welch, on the other hand, has been infuriating throughout this ordeal.

Welch has posted about Child Protective Services, a distrust of doctors and religious beliefs on Facebook. He called doctors “priesthoods of the medical cult” and spoke in one video post about refusing to get his children vaccinated.
“The righteous shall live by faith. It’s God who is sovereign over disease and those sorts of things and, of course, ultimately deaths,” he said.

God is “sovereign over disease,” says the man who saw an eye doctor for his glasses. If they are indeed found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, it’s because they deserve it.


Hemant Mehta blogs @ Friendly Atheist 

Follow Hemant Mehta on Twitter @hemantmehta

18 comments:

  1. "Mary, who only lived to be 10 months old, was very skinny at the end of her life due to malnutrition and dehydration. Her parents did nothing about it, citing religious reasons for not taking her to a doctor. Presumably, they thought God would just magically take care of everything."


    maybe you presume to much mister mehta. in fact this is all this article is - presumption and colossal anti-religious bigotry. i am going to do some research on this story. is it possible that these two parents saw the damage vaccines have done to children? is it possible that they, like many parents in the states have realised that the 'medical profession' in america is nothing but a bunch of drug pushers for a toxic pharmaceutical business (do ur own research on the opioid epidemic currently KILLING AMERICA)? is this the corrupt and masonic american judicial system of that cesspit we know as the USA making an example of two anti-establishment Christian parents. methinks there is a hell of a lot more to this story than meets the eye.

    but whats really shocking about this article is that a persons critique of the child protection agency (a scary and paedo infested organisation) and anti establishment posts on facebook will be used by a so called journalist to justify what has happened to these parents WHO ARE INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY. what a fucking scary article on so many levels.

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  2. i urge u all to watch this video a second time with the volume down.

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  3. Grouch you really are full on, four star bat shit crazy aren't you?

    Vaccines work.
    Much of the opioid crisis is from the illegal selling of such.
    Certain parts of the justice system there is corrupt but babbling about the masons detracts from your point.
    CPA/Pedo link...evidence?

    Fact is, these two scumbags thought more of their dead zombie telepathic slavemaster than they did of their own baby girl.

    Fuck them.

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  4. Obviously you haven't researched the opioid epidemic and whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty. Also an increasing amount of medical doctors are beginning to question the wisdom of vaccines. Did you not see the front page of the independent last week, yes actually front page headline to be precise highlighting the narcolepsy side effects our CHILDREN are experiencing because of vaccine . now when enough medical professionals start to turn against them people like you who are completely brainwashed will stop using words like batshit etc to describe people like me. Also there's only one country in the world with a worse wig and pig system than the USA and that is the septic little repukelic on the west coast of Europe which has just given the top pig post to mi5.

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  5. and for ur homework u can find proof yourself. Sadly it won't take you long. In your mind it's probably only the Catholic Church that is infested with paedophiles. Also how come the lgbt leader in Scotland who was campaigning for gay adoption but was found out to be a paedophile didn't get more exposure in the media .

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  6. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1178354/Gay-rights-campaigner-led-double-life-leader-paedophile-ring-carried-catalogue-child-abuse.html

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  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=460&v=5Q6pDGNQw3I

    this is an interesting video on where all this lgtbs stuff is heading. also, check out the teacher at 7 mins 36 secs. suddenly those old christian brothers and nuns dont seem so bad. lads, lassies, on a serious note - the left is not the left anymore, get away from all this lgtbs gunk as soon as you can. i will always stick up for decent queers, and of course there are decent queers out there who are against this evil crud, but this shit has to stop and u must do ur part in putting a stop to it or be shamed forever.

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  8. i posted some comments from an ipod this morning so maybe that post seems out of context. i mitent have posted them as im not used to it.

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  9. You are doing the LGBTQI community a great disservice Grouch. They themselves hate pedophiles for the same reason as the rest of us do.

    A child CANNOT CONSENT.

    By all means help someone who has these urges as they are clearly a brain abnormality, BEFORE they offend but punish severely those who commit crimes against children within the fullest extent of the Law.

    Can't help but wonder if you 'always sticking up for decent queers' is nothing but talk, and you secretly habour the notion that Gay=Pedo....

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  10. Stevie,

    What happens is they hide the truth in plain sight and most don't see it because they are brain dead, dumbed down,...

    What they do is they get a 6/7 year old girl to dress up, blow Tom Hanks a kiss while saying " Talk dirty to me", put it on the Jimmy Kimble show pass it of as a comedy and everyone is ok with it.. watch from 4min 27sec. It is creepy.

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  11. well i wont lose any sleep over doing lgbs a disservice.
    the irish are the biggest bullies on earth and i will always stick up for gays who get bullied. but i draw the line at gaylord gobshites who are completely wrapped up in themselves and think its great to go on parades and wave their genitals around for all and sundry to see - including kids. utterly narcissistic self absorbed tossers. i want their parades banned for the following reasons -

    http://bernardgaynor.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Upset-child.png

    https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1496026971297.jpg

    https://timesofsandiego.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Pride-Parade-2017-39.jpg

    and what the fuck is this -

    http://i.magaimg.net/img/v5l.jpg

    https://prensarepublicana.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/nambla.jpg

    Steve, i dont secretly harbour the notion that gay = pedo, but by all means let us have a discussion about the proportion of pedos who are gay. and finally, lets pray for this kid -

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuvAGJV5E-w

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  12. Frankie,

    Creepy no doubt and we should call it out, but that's not the point of grouch's insane babbling.

    And no grouch, i don't think pedo's are exclusively in the Catholic Church but they sure as shit are at the top of the league for wholesale and rampant shielding of thousands of pedo's among their ministers! And how the fuck can another priest absolve a pedo who confesses to raping children? The whole thing is putrid.

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  13. Stevie,

    A child CANNOT CONSENT.

    Stevie they are taught it in school in the UK, USA, even in Oz.

    Thing is Stevie the people who are pushing the LFBTQ agenda are also pushing the lowering of the age of consent. It wasn't that long ago on British TV PIE were advocating it. Today in LA this kid just won LA Pride.

    By all means help someone who has these urges as they are clearly a brain abnormality, BEFORE they offend but punish severely those who commit crimes against children within the fullest extent of the Law.

    So the plan is what Stevie? How do you find out who has the urges, a mass screening of the world for a defunk strand of DNA? What do you do when you find whoever with the fcuked up gene? Do you turn the gene off like a light bulb? What happens if we cant turn off the gene? Does whoever who has the gene but not acted on it be placed in a holding cell/FEMA camp until someone figures out what to do? What if science says the only way to stop the fcuked up gene from replicating itself, is to breed it out and that means all carriers of the gene have to be sterlised and placed on a desert island to die out.

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  14. frankie, this is so important we have to do our best to give people the truth about all this in the most honest and clear way we can. people just arnt wide to it. criticizing the lgbs brigade nowadays is like criticising the church back in the 1930's, with the same dangers - excommunication, censorship and abuse. they are a little bunch of self absorbed narcissistic control freaky bullies with the full backing of the media and 'government' - just like the hierarchy in those days..

    do you guys remember how the bbc constantly lampooned mary whitehouse back in the day, the British Brainwashing Corporation/Buggering British Children. they deliberately made her and her followers look bad at every possible opportunity. meanwhile jimmy savile had the run of the place - and buck palace - how mad is that! God bless that protector of british and irish children, she put up a good fight and i hope that someday she gets the credit she is due.

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  15. there u go again steve - 'insane babbling'. its water off a duck's back - batshit crazy, insane blah blah blah.
    i'll get back on track here - INNOCENT TIL PROVEN GUILTY. u practically have the electric chair charged up for this couple. not right.what the fuck ever happened to a fair trial.
    also, u seem to think im some kind of defender for church - im not. i agree with you. but im not going to pretend its just a church thing, coz its not, SADLY. they however are not the ones trying to normalise this behaviour. elements of the gaylord brigade are, and always have - p.i.e. manboylove etc.
    also - the medical profession, thanks to an out of control pharmaceutical industry which along with other corporations and banks controls the american media and government and practically all media and governments IS A TOXIC DEATH CULT OF DISEASE ADDICTION AND MISERY.
    finally, i think i was right to call out this shabby, unprofessional and highly presumptuous attempt at journalism. and i'll say it again - there is more to this story than meets the eye.
    if my worst enemy was up for child murder i would like to think i'd wish him/her a fair trial and for all the facts to come out.

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  16. Stevie,

    i don't think pedo's are exclusively in the Catholic Church but they sure as shit are at the top of the league for wholesale and rampant shielding of thousands of pedo's among their ministers!

    What you are doing is playing a numbers game. The Catholic Church recently have admited to covering up for 300 priests who abused 1,000 kids under their care. Jimmy Saville abused about that half number on his own. Throw into the mix Paedophiles In Parliament.. Then add up the socail workers, police officers, intelligence agencies, media moguls who are covering up.. Basically much of a muchness when you play the numbers game.

    If you think Tom Hanks is creepy and questionable Stevie, what do you think about The Rock making a robot to sexually abuse children twice as fast as a human and it is passed of as comedy on SNL? Next time you see My Little Pony have a look at the symbolism. It is all code for peadophiles. Nickelodeon cartoon's are the same. Disney is the Catholic Church in the cartoon cover up. Watch the next 2 links and I bet you will think twice the next time you see Macaulay Culkin, in Home Alone or Richie Rich. What made a cute blonde hairied kid grow up to sing a song like Bunny Ranch that contains lines such as... "Bind me, gag me, take me to the bunny ranch, People dying, kill me in the packing house, One kiss, two kiss, how d'you make it look like that? Do me, doggy, rape me in the parking lot." And all the big alpha male hip hop singers talking about killing Crisps and Bloods in LA. Most are gayer than Elton John (watch until 15mins and you will see that Will Smith is a closet gay)

    Whats the deal with Prince Andrew's friendship with Jeffrey Epstein a known peadophile? Epstein is friends with James Alefantis who owns a family friendly pizza parlour that has groups like sex staines and heavy breathing as entertainment. Listen to the lead singer majestic ape and the crowds sense of humour.

    It aint just the Vatican Stevie.....

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  17. Frankie
    "It aint just the Vatican"
    But only the Vatican claims to be the one true church, the only path to heaven, the church of the divine creator, an establishment with power and access over all its member families, trusted and adored. But they have been buggering and murdering children and then covering it up on this island for years and still people defend them. That's the difference between the Vatican and other paedo gangs.

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  18. But only the Vatican claims to be the one true church, the only path to heaven, the church of the divine creator, an establishment with power and access over all its member families, trusted and adored.

    Peter,

    What about Oxfam or the UN ? They are just as big as the Catholic Church and with just as many tentacles, who are meant to be helping the most vunerable, protecting children from sex trafficking, preventing organ harvesting, child rape but are up to their necks in every vile crime you can imagine. British and European Royalty. Purveyors of what exactly? Apart from being as guilty of the same crimes, covers ups as The Vatican, Oxfam and The UN.

    We have all heard about The Bohemian Club and Molech worship. Here is an extract from one of the leaked Wikileaks emails of Podesta/Clinton, in part reads....

    UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State Case No. F-2016-07895 Doc No. C06131616 Date: 11/03/2016

    With fingers crossed, the old rabbit's foot out of the box in the attic, I will be sacrificing a chicken in the backyard to Moloch . .

    Here is an example of what happens Peter, a child is trafficked in China, South America, stolen from the streets of Washington DC or a boys home in East Belfast and passed around as a sexual object. Often when they have finished violating and terrorising the child, sometimes babies, they cut the back of the neck and drain blood from the victim and drink it. There is a story doing the rounds for months that on the dark web there is meant to be a video of a very high ranking member of the DNC party and an aide sexually abusing a young girl then filleting her face for a mask and draining her body of blood and get high on adrenochome

    What happens is pedophiles go into certain lines of work that bring them into contact with children. Some join religious sects, some become social workers, teachers, politicians, some marry into certain families, others head for the neon signs of the entertainment industry. . And what pisses Grouch and myself off is their agenda to normalise pedophilia by allowing Tedx talks presented by some uni snowflake to appear on youtube for the world to see in 2018. What I know is some people on this rock from as far back as the ancient Mayan and Inca cultures, Ancient Babylon all carried out human and child sacrifices. I will ask you the same Q. Peter. How do you stop it? A mass screening of the world to find a fcuked up gene? What happens if they find the gene and it can't be turned off but it can only bred out by isolating carriers....

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