{"id":2715,"date":"2004-11-13T23:26:32","date_gmt":"2004-11-14T03:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/11\/13\/parental-sacrifice-thwarted\/"},"modified":"2004-11-13T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2004-11-14T03:26:32","slug":"parental-sacrifice-thwarted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/11\/13\/parental-sacrifice-thwarted\/","title":{"rendered":"Parental Sacrifice Thwarted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4167'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/speeed.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" align=\"left\"><br \/>\n        <em>A very bizarre case has developed this week up in New Hampshire,<br \/>\n        the Northeast&#8217;s last bastion of rugged individualism and trailer park<br \/>\n        chic. A couple<br \/>\n          were arrested after invading a church and informing the Reverend that<br \/>\n          they wanted to sacrifice one of their children on the alter!<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The mother<br \/>\n              came to church in her pajamas, police said, and made a gruesome request:<br \/>\n              She<br \/>\n              wanted<br \/>\n              to<br \/>\n              sacrifice<br \/>\n              one<br \/>\n              of her<br \/>\n              children.<\/p>\n<p>          On Wednesday afternoon, Nicole Mancini, 29, and her boyfriend, John<br \/>\n              Thurber, 35, walked into Saint Mary Church in Rochester, N.H., with<br \/>\n              her three children<br \/>\n          with the intention of sacrificing one of them on the altar, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Mancini and Thurber live in the Peaceful Pines Mobile Home Park in Farmington.<br \/>\n          According to Ivon Preble, whose mobile home abuts the couple&#8217;s, Mancini<br \/>\n          and Thurber have had problems with neighbors, including one who put up<br \/>\n          a stockade fence to separate their yards. Police said that the couple&#8217;s<br \/>\n        7-year-old son has severe medical problems, but they would not elaborate. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>We saw the mother on TV, leaving the courtroom, out on bail. Rail<br \/>\n          thin, with stringy red hair and nervous, bird-like movements. She had<br \/>\n          a wild, demented look in her eye as she rambled on in a stream-of-consciousness<br \/>\n          narrative &quot;just don&#8217;t look at the cameras, act normal and play along<br \/>\n          and it will all work out, now just follow the plan. you don&#8217;t understand<br \/>\n          but it will all become clear soon when they let me tell&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>We immediately recognized the effects of long-term crystal methedrine<br \/>\n          abuse.&nbsp; The precise but spastic movements, the haunted fixations<br \/>\n          on intricate illusionary plans, the erratic and irrational behavior.<br \/>\n          Going three weeks without sleep can wake up a lot of mental weevils<br \/>\n          and open<br \/>\n          doors<br \/>\n          of perception best left closed, locked and barricaded.<\/p>\n<p>Crystal Meth, known as &quot;Poor Man&#8217;s Cocaine&quot; or &quot;Crank&quot;, can be whipped<br \/>\n          up in a bathtub with ingredients available at any Super K-Mart with<br \/>\n          a pharmacy, making it perfect for trailer park production, distribution<br \/>\n          and consumption.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame the State does such a lousy job of bringing up kids,<br \/>\n          because there are a whole lot of young Americans who would be better<br \/>\n          off just about anywhere except with their putative &quot;parents&quot;. Bringing<br \/>\n          up kids is just about the most important job in the country, and we<br \/>\n          let any old messed up psycho give it a whirl.&nbsp; Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2004\/11\/13\/pair_wanted_to_sacrifice_child_police_say\/\">the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very bizarre case has developed this week up in New Hampshire, the Northeast&#8217;s last bastion of rugged individualism and trailer park chic. 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