Parents of murdered child charged with endangerment, abuse

[Tennesseer]

The parents are monsters.

Parents of murdered child charged with endangerment, abuse

The parents of a girl who was beaten and drowned in a Benton County pond on Dec. 20 were arraigned on charges of Child Endangerment and Domestic Abuse.

James and Mary Mast both pleaded not guilty to the charges.

James Mast is charged with one count of felony Endangering the Welfare of a Child resulting in the death of the child and one count of felony Endangering the Welfare of a Child resulting in serious physical injury.

Mary Mast is charged with one count of felony Endangering the Welfare of a Child resulting in the death of the child and one count of felony Domestic Assault resulting in serious physical injury.

The Masts are accused of allowing their four-year-old daughter to be severely beaten and failing to provide aid and protection. Mary Mast is also accused of dunking her daughter in a pond, resulting in her death.

Both Masts requested to be released from the Benton County Jail to attend the girl's funeral. Both were denied.

According to a probable cause statement filed with the 30th Circuit Court, James Mast told authorities that he allowed his family and himself to be repeatedly beaten because the alleged murderers of his daughter, Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen, told them he would go to hell if he didn't allow it and that they would shoot him. Ethan Mast and James Mast are not related.

The Masts were apparently told that God was talking through Aumen. They were told that the four-year-old and Mary Mast were possessed by "demons." Mary Mast told responding deputies that "this has been a huge God thing that they convinced us of."

James Mast told deputies that the alleged killer, Ethan Mast, and his partner, Aumen, had been beating his entire family for approximately two weeks. He had allegedly used a wooden spoon and a leather belt to inflict the beatings.

Mary Mast and one of the couple's sons, a two-year-old, also showed signs of severe, ongoing beatings.

Complete and sad article here: link

[Tiny]

Geez, when something like this happens I tend to think some form of addiction is involved (drugs or alcohol).   

How bad/hopeless does your life have to be that you get your self into this situation:

The couple stated that Ethan Mast and Aumen were in the habit of monitoring the inside of their home with security cameras which they viewed on their cell phones. They would unplug the cameras when they came over to torture the family so there was no video evidence, according to the documents. According to James Mast, the beatings of himself, his wife and children had been going on for approximately two weeks.

I'm curious about how James and Mary Mast became acquainted with Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen?  


All four of the adults are "monsters". 

[Tennesseer]

Dec 28, 2020 20:25:40 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Geez, when something like this happens I tend to think some form of addiction is involved (drugs or alcohol).   

How bad/hopeless does your life have to be that you get your self into this situation:

The couple stated that Ethan Mast and Aumen were in the habit of monitoring the inside of their home with security cameras which they viewed on their cell phones. They would unplug the cameras when they came over to torture the family so there was no video evidence, according to the documents. According to James Mast, the beatings of himself, his wife and children had been going on for approximately two weeks.

I'm curious about how James and Mary Mast became acquainted with Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen?  


All four of the adults are "monsters". 

'Religion' and the devil seems to be playing a part in this.

[wvugurl26]

I read about this earlier. Throw them in general population and be done with it. There's no rehabilitation for monsters like this.

One article I read said they all belonged to the same church.

[djAdvocate]

I hope you will forgive me, but I can't bother to get my head around this much crazy.

[Tiny]

Dec 28, 2020 20:55:03 GMT -5 Tennesseer said:

Dec 28, 2020 20:25:40 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Geez, when something like this happens I tend to think some form of addiction is involved (drugs or alcohol).   

How bad/hopeless does your life have to be that you get your self into this situation:

I'm curious about how James and Mary Mast became acquainted with Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen?  


All four of the adults are "monsters". 

'Religion' and the devil seems to be playing a part in this.

that makes it even worse -   at least  addiction  is a human flaw - it doesn't excuse or make them not guilty it just makes them human. 

How bad/hopeless/horrible does your GOD (who is arguably the source of one's moral compass) have to be so that pleasing it/doing what it wants  gets you into this situation:

The couple stated that Ethan Mast and Aumen were in the habit of monitoring the inside of their home with security cameras which they viewed on their cell phones. They would unplug the cameras when they came over to torture the family so there was no video evidence, according to the documents. According to James Mast, the beatings of himself, his wife and children had been going on for approximately two weeks.

 

[happyhoix]

If you wrote that scenario into a movie plot there isn’t a studio in the world that would consider it believable, except possibly some ultra creepy Bondage porn (and they would leave out the kids, that’s just too sick)

You see these kinds of stories and wonder how the hell supposedly Christian people would play any role in it.