Teen recounts deadly beating inside secretive church
Called to a meeting in the sanctuary of their church, teenage brothers Christopher and Lucas Leonard were told to stand and answer for what they had done.
When the answers didn’t come, the beatings began.
Court date today for 6 charged in NY church beating
A mother charged with killing her teenage son in a church felt helpless to stop an “intervention” that spiraled into a severe beating, her lawyer says.
Police unsure what ‘sins’ provoked attack on brothers
The fatal beating of a young man and the savage attack on his younger brother by relatives and fellow members of an upstate New York church was intended to get them to confess their sins, investigators said, but they still haven’t determined what those supposed sins were.