Half-Naked Lawyer Beat Ex-Wife to Death in Front of Children: Officials
Contrary to what my fellow conservatives say, marriage and “the nuclear family” do not improve society or make people more loving, ethical, godly, or responsible.
I’m not arguing the opposite, by the way – I am not saying being single or childless makes a person more godly, ethical, etc.
But conservative beliefs that The Nuclear Family will somehow “fix” a broken society is based on pipe dreams – nor is it mentioned in the Bible that marriage is a cure for a sin-filled world.
The Bible does not prescribe marriage or parenthood as fixes for society. The Bible says that marriage detracts a person’s attention from God and helping others to a spouse (see 1 Corinthians 7).
Jesus said your allegiance as his follower was supposed to be him and other believers, not to a spouse or biological family. Jesus never married or had children.
Did being married and a father make this man more godly, ethical, moral, loving, and responsible? Nope.
(Link): Half-naked lawyer beat ex-wife to death in front of children: officials
by Michael Ruiz,
August 25, 2022
A North Dakota lawyer allegedly beat his ex-wife to death in Minnesota on Tuesday as she clung to the youngest of their five children and two others screamed for help, according to the Marshall County Sheriff’s Office.
The younger boy, 2, was so traumatized that he didn’t respond to questions from deputies after they had his father in custody and rushed his mother to the hospital.
Anders Odegaard, 31, and Carissa Odegaard, also 31, divorced last year, court records show.
In a custody dispute this week, he allegedly refused to let her take their kids to church and a fight broke out, deputies wrote in the criminal complaint after interviewing the children.
Two of their boys ran outside, flagged down a stranger and begged him to call 911 “because their mom was bleeding really bad and needed help,” according to the complaint.
The first responding deputy found Anders Odegaard in the kitchen wearing just his underwear, with blood on his face and in his hair. Carissa Odegaard was unresponsive and lying in a doorway — with a pool of blood around her head.
The deputy asked him to explain the situation.
“I don’t feel right,” Odegaard replied, according to the complaint.
The deputy found that Carissa Odegaard was not breathing. He cuffed the ex-husband and attempted CPR on the victim. He noticed “severe head trauma” and called for an ambulance.
The 9-year-old boy told investigators he saw his father strike his mother with a knife or spatula in the head moments before he ran outside and found someone to call 911, according to authorities. He also told deputies he’d seen his father hit his mother before.
Three brothers, ages 9, 8 and 2, were inside during the attack. Two other siblings were outside in their mom’s car and were spared the horror, according to the complaint.
The 8-year-old told investigators that after beating his mother to the floor, his father “was on top of her choking her.”
“There was blood all over,” he told deputies, and when he tapped his mother’s foot, she didn’t respond to the touch.
Court records show the Odegaards married in May 2011 and officially divorced on Sept. 16, 2021, on the grounds that their marriage was “irretrievably broken.” The slaying comes just days before the ex-couple was due in court for a review hearing.
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