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aberrantangelsDo they usually continue trials on Sunday?
Tomorrow's article in the Jefferson City Times-Dispatch will quote Amber de Rais (probably not her real name), one of Weltey's "sisters in Darkness", as opining that "Jason wouldn't have been given nearly as harsh a sentence if he'd been an apathetic sheep like the rest of you!" Defense counsel was less voluble about the verdict, but still called it "religious persecution, along the lines of the Salem Witch Trials" and confirmed their intent to appeal.
2006
[Aberrant] Stanley Jason "Brother Elias" Weltey, of St. Louis, is sentenced to six consecutive life terms without parole in connection with the kidnappings of six infants in the Springfield (MO) area; he is alleged to have eaten the corpses as part of an organized Church of Astaroth ritual.
Tomorrow's article in the Jefferson City Times-Dispatch will quote Amber de Rais (probably not her real name), one of Weltey's "sisters in Darkness", as opining that "Jason wouldn't have been given nearly as harsh a sentence if he'd been an apathetic sheep like the rest of you!" Defense counsel was less voluble about the verdict, but still called it "religious persecution, along the lines of the Salem Witch Trials" and confirmed their intent to appeal.
