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Wednesday May 2, 2007

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Cults are not the way to lose weight

Weigh Down and Remnant seem to do more harm to those who join than good. Goals are set, and if they are not met, Newsome said members are told they will go to hell. Guilt and shame are used to keep the members in line, and eternal damnation is said to be the punishment for overeating.
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Thursday March 29, 2007

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Church leading appeal of parents sentenced in child’s death

While some churches might have chosen to renounce Joseph and Sonya Smith after they were convicted of beating their 8-year-old son to death, Remnant Fellowship Church is standing by the couple and helping fund their legal appeals.
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Wednesday March 28, 2007

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Couple Sentenced to Life Plus 30 Years for Beating Murder of 8-Year-Old Son

A couple was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 30 years in prison in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the family’s Remnant Fellowship Church because it supports corporal punishment.
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Saturday February 17, 2007

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Remnant Fellowship Church’s critics say verdict is a lesson

Former members of a Brentwood-based church said they hoped Friday’s conviction of Georgia couple in the death of their 8-year-old son would prompt the church and its followers to re-examine their child discipline teachings.
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Friday February 16, 2007

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Parents guilty in child murder case that prompted Brentwood church raid

A suburban Atlanta couple was found guilty Friday of one count each of felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 8-year-old son, in a case that prompted authorities to raid the Tennessee-based church where the parents are members.
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Parents guilty in child murder

A jury today convicted Cobb parents Joseph and Sonya Smith on one count each of felony murder and involuntary manslaughter in the death of their 8-year-old son Josef.
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12 Jurors, 2 Parents, 1 Dead Child

What that jury of ten women and two men decides could send the parents to prison, possibly for as long as the rest of their lives, or release them to the embrace of family and friends and fellow church members who have shared their grief over the loss of their son.
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Jury Sees Videos In Trial of Joseph and Sonya Smith

One of the crimes the state of Georgia has charged the Smith’s with is using glue sticks to punish Josef. It’s a form of punishment they learned at Remnant Fellowship Church.
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Deliberations End In Church Members’ Murder Trial

Deliberations in the Marietta, Georgia murder trial of Joseph and Sonya Smith came to an end on Thursday. A verdict is expected sometime Friday.
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Thursday February 15, 2007

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Closing argument forces Cobb parents to tears

As prosecutor Eleanor Dixon concluded her closing remarks Wednesday, she produced a birthday cake with eight candles. Missing, she said, were candles marking Josef Smith’s subsequent birthdays.
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Jury now weighs fate of Georgia couple charged in son’s death

The fate of two members of a Brentwood-based church accused of murdering their 8-year-old son is now in the hands of a Georgia jury.
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Wednesday February 14, 2007

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Prosecutor blasts expert who claimed 8-year-old boy died from infection

A prosecutor in the trial of two parents accused of murdering their son challenged the professionalism of a key defense witness Tuesday by asking whether a dermatologist was an “advocate or a scientist.”
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Doctor raises doubts about marks on boy

The Smiths are members of the Franklin, Tenn.-based Remnant Fellowship Church, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin’s Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986. Authorities raided the church in June 2004 as part of the investigation of Josef Smith’s death.
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Experts tell jurors 8-year-old boy died from bacterial infection

Eight-year-old Josef Smith wasn’t beaten to death by his parents, but instead died from a bacterial infection brought on by common dermatitis eczema, experts told jurors Monday at Joseph and Sonya Smith’s murder trial.
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Tuesday February 13, 2007

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Church Members Testify In Murder Trial

A Georgia jury heard from members of a middle Tennessee church Monday. They testified at the murder trial of two members of The Brentwood-based Remnant Fellowship Church. Sonia and Joseph Smith are charged with killing their 8-year-old son Josef in 2003.
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Saturday February 10, 2007

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Medical Experts Testify In Murder Case

The prosecution wrapped up its case Friday against a Georgia couple charged with murdering their son. The boy’s parents worship over the internet at Brentwood Fellowship Church.
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Friday February 9, 2007

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Couple accused of killing their son, 8, had another child die, jurors learn

Just 11 weeks before Joseph and Sonya Smith’s 8-year-old son died, allegedly from abuse, the couple’s 18-month-old son Milek died from complications from an irregular heartbeat.
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Verbal fireworks erupt in child death case

A defense attorney moved for a mistrial and an angry judge demanded an apology Thursday after the brother of a dead 8 year-old-boy referred on the witness stand to another sibling who had died.
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Thursday February 8, 2007

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Teen testifies she heard father hit son

In other testimony Wednesday, police said the Smiths held an online prayer session with their church, Brentwood-based Remnant Fellowship Church, while the child lay dying.
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Witness: Boy in beating death case was covered with bruises

A county firefighter testified Wednesday in the case of a couple accused of beating to death their 8-year-old child that the boy was covered in what appeared to be bruises across his lower body.
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What Does Bible Say About Corporal Punishment?

In the Old Testament,there are several verses of scripture that many believe supports parents spanking their children.
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Cobb cop testifies parents feared son, 8

Joseph and Sonya Smith, of Mableton, each face one count of murder, three counts of felony murder, five counts of first-degree child cruelty, three counts of aggravated assault and two counts of false imprisonment.
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Boy’s father in beating death case told police his son made death threats

Josef Smith’s father told police his 8-year-old son frequently needed discipline because the child carved death threats on the walls that kept the family awake at night and claimed he was a foot-soldier for the devil.
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Wednesday February 7, 2007

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Child’s death renews scrutiny of Remnant Fellowship Church

The murder trial of a Georgia couple accused of whipping, confining and then beating their son to death shines a spotlight on the child discipline practices of the controversial Remnant Fellowship Church.
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Remnant Fellowship Tape Could Be Evidence

Joseph and Sonya Smith are charged not only murder, but they’re also accused of confining Josef in a small room for long periods of time.
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