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By: Dan Ceppa Re: Sacrifice kids for religion Xianity isn't the only religion killing their kids for god: 2/19/97 Peninsula Daily News, Port Angeles, WA FATHER ADMITS KILLING CHILDREN OVER RELIGION (AP) ---------------- NEWARK, N.J. -- In a surprise admission on the day of his murder trial, a man sobbed as he told the judge how he strangled his 12-year-old daughter and killed his 10-year-old son during a custody battle over their religious upbringing. "I held my hands around her neck for about five minutes with my face pressed to hers," Avi Kostner said Tuesday in court. "I cried..'Please forgive me. Please God forgive me.'" Kostner said he drugged the children and put them in the back of his car. He killed the girl after she awoke but said he couldn't bring himself to strangle the boy, so he gave him more of a trnquilizer. He also used a hose to fill the car with its exhaust fumes. Kostner, a taxi driver and part-time Hebrew teacher, surprised even his own lawyer w3hen he suddenly asked to address the court. He then pleaded guilty and confessed to the killings, whcih came during a battle over custody and whether to raise the children as Jews. ================================================ ... Tagline Deleted: Nothing funny about this shit. ... Real men don't abuse children.

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