“Secretive” cult church members Bruce Leonard, 65, and his 59-year-old wife Deborah Leonard have been charged with first-degree manslaughter in the beating death of their son Lucas.
Investigators said the 19-year-old youth and his younger brother were assaulted by their fanatical parents and four other parishioners during a punishing ritual at the ‘Word of Life Christian Church’ in Chadwicks New York.
The tiny hamlet is located upstate near the city of Utica and not far from the Canadian border.
Lucas Leonard died from numerous life-threatening injuries he sustained in the brutal church beating, officials in Oneida County stated.
His unidentified sibling is currently being hospitalized and listed in serious condition.
Both teens suffered blunt force trauma to their genitals, abdomens, backs and legs, in what is believed to have been a group-punishment performed at the cult church facility on Monday evening.
It’s not known yet what *offenses* the two victims committed to warrant such lethal beatings -- their six attackers, including their parents, were jailed yesterday and have all pleaded not guilty.
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