Religious Utah MORMON father charged with TORTURE and child abuse for taking his little kids on a way-too-hard hike:https://archive.is/lPaquthe trail in question where he was found with his 8 year old daughter, and 2 and 4 year old son:https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/utah/broads-fork-trailIt's 2000 ft of elevation gain over 2.2~ mi each way so pretty steep. Initially, some news reports hailed the rescue and the father’s efforts to keep the children alive in unforgiving conditions. There was even a GoFundMe fund-raiser, where Mr. Smith was said to have suffered frostbite in trying to keep the children safe, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.Two of the children were in critical condition after they were found, the sheriff’s office said after the rescue, and one was in stable condition. Mr. Smith was in fair condition, the statement said.District Attorney Sim Gill of Salt Lake City said during a news conference that the children were told to “march on” despite being afraid and that the path Mr. Smith took, known as the Broad Fork Trail, was “not an easy hike that you would take a child upon.”Mr. Gill also said that the children discussed climbing over “rocks that were slipping” and having to hold onto vegetation as they were trying to hike.The 8-year-old girl was found “alongside a boulder with ‘a few sticks stacked against it,’” and the 2-year-old boy was under his 4-year-old brother, who was exposed and unconscious, according to the news report.The news station also reported that Mr. Smith’s daughter can be heard in a video that was found on his phone asking, “Are we going to freeze to death, daddy?”
Smith and his children, ages 8, 4, and 2, became trapped in a storm during the outing and were reported missing. Rescuers found them the next day, discovering the 4-year-old was lying on top of the 2-year-old, both unconscious and not breathing.Smith told officials he performed CPR on the younger boys, who were lightly dressed for the frigid conditions.Two of the children were hospitalized in critical condition, while Smith was listed in fair condition. The 4-year-old later suffered a stroke and required part of his skull to be removed after arriving at the hospital with a body temperature of just 62.6 degrees.At one point, officials say Smith even taught his daughter how to perform CPR before leaving the children on the mountain and attempting to head down alone. First responders later performed 25 minutes of CPR on the 4-year-old during the rescue.The daughter told investigators she begged her father multiple times to turn back as the storm intensified, but he refused.She said Smith insisted it was a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience and blocked her from going back down the trail, allegedly telling her, “You shall not pass.”Smith’s daughter also said her father told them the hike was either nine miles long or would take nine hours, but she couldn’t remember which. The trail is actually a five-mile round trip with a steep elevation gain.Rescuers ultimately found the family about 600 feet from the summit, sheltering behind a boulder with a few sticks to block the wind after the youngest child fell, hit his head, and became dazed.
According to the NYP, Smith had prior run-ins with police, including an incident a month before the hike when officers found him with two guns and an axe after he expressed suicidal thoughts and said he wanted to climb a mountain.On November 10, Smith was accused of trespassing at Primary Children’s Hospital, interfering with his 4-year-old son’s medical care, and tampering with equipment, Fox 13 reported. He was later arrested in a separate domestic violence case.
>>2852065>mormons are retardedcall me surprised
>>2852071my point is, when you create a society where irrational thinking and blind obedience are rewarded, and conformity is encouraged, and people are told to just marry and have babies, when people struggle, they tend to turn inwards because others are not supportive
>existential crisis expeessed as wanting to climb a mountain>gets so bad he loses rational thought>is now crazy and trying to keep up with responisibilities>fucks it up and everyone almost diesThis is literaly society's fault, we humans do not get to let our lives unfold in ways that match our will, instead we have shitty jobs and are depressed. Maybe he wouldn't have gone crazy about a mountain if he had a better work/life balance.
>>2852071VGH... the FAVSTIAN spirit...
>>2852076Ya, everyone fucking hates mormons; corporate spirituality means there is no balance.
>>2852065Did the kids make it???
>>2852068>She said Smith insisted it was a “once-in-a-lifetime” experience and blocked her from going back down the trail, allegedly telling her, “You shall not pass.”fucking millennials, jesus christ
>>2852068>The daughter told investigators she begged her father multiple times to turn back as the storm intensified, but he refused.Fucking Americans.
>>2852069That sounds like he was trying to suicide his kids in the mountains with him
>>2852171one is still in the hospital, other two are ok I think
