Couple Accused in Plot to Sacrifice Kids





ROCHESTER, N.H. - A woman and her boyfriend are accused of plotting to sacrifice the woman's three children on a church altar.



Nicole Mancini, 29, and John Thurber, 35, were arrested at St. Mary's Church on Wednesday after workers said they heard the woman say she wanted to sacrifice the boys.


"We could tell this woman was not right," said church secretary Donna Landolfi. "She said, 'Let's go make the sacrifice.'"


Mancini and Thurber were in jail Saturday on more than $25,000 bail. They were arraigned Friday on three counts each of misdemeanor child endangerment. Thurber was also charged with marijuana possession.


The children, ages 9, 7 and 2, were not harmed and were placed in state custody. Police said Thurber is the father of the youngest boy.


Police said Mancini told them that Jesus sacrificed himself for her, so she was going to sacrifice the boys to free her soul.


"Eighteen years I've been doing this and I've never come across anything like it," police Lt. Paul Callaghan said.


Mancini's attorney, Kimberly Shoen, said her client meant the children no harm.


"They were never tied to the altar, there was no blood, there were no constraints for sacrificial use," she said.


Linda Slamon, Thurber's attorney, said Mancini had been acting "irrationally" recently and Thurber accompanied her to the church to get her help.


"If anything, he was there to protect the children and protect Miss Mancini," Slamon said.


A judge ordered Mancini, of Farmington, to undergo a mental evaluation

Someone has been watching "The Omen" too many times.

I read about this yesterday and I doubt very seriously that they were going to be able to sacrifice anything in any way other than a symbolic gesture, since they didn't have any knives or restraints or anything. What were they going to do, beat them to death with a bible?

Mastodon said:

That's what I felt like was happening in my Catholic grade school.

whats that line from that movie ??

you have to have a license to catch a fish, you have to have a license to drive a car... but, they'll let any buttreamin asshole be a father...


i love that !! some folks just should not be allowed to have children

Can I just tell you - I'm from Rochester NH and my parents belong to St Mary's. I was just there yesterday for mass.
The subject did not come up until afterwards at breakfast.
I hadn't even heard about it until then.
I can't believe it's posted here.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

I know it's a very distasteful topic, but can someone please acknowledge that I grew up in this freakin town!!!!!
It's my parent's church!!!!!
Just hold me.
I'm so cold.
Just hold me.

Fleshofmyflesh said:

sorry bout it being distasteful ...

i thought it was a joke of somekind ...

my apologies

Mach said:

No Mach, it's okay.
I wasn't offended at all by your post.
I just wanted someone to acknowledge the coincidence of it being my hometown, my church...that's all.
And it is absolutely true.

MrJoker said:

...or reading the book of Genesis.

Why was it OK for Abraham, but not OK for anyone else. After all, we all hear those voices, don't we?