Mother Beats Young Daughter After She Recites Bible Verses Wrong: Report

MIDDLETOWN, PA -- A mother has been arrested after police say she beat her daughter because she wasn't reciting Bible verses correcting, according to a media report.

Rhonda Kemp Shoffner, 41, of Middletown in Dauphin County, allegedly attacked her daughter, who is under 13, in the afternoon on March 14, Penn Live reports.

Shoffner is currently being held in prison on $100,000 bail, according to court documents.

The daughter reportedly told police that Shoffner had been drunk for three days straight when the incident occurred.

Shoffner ordered her daughter into the bathroom and told her to get on her knees, reports state. She then began spouting off Bible verses and demanded the girl repeat the lines.

At one point, Shoffner reportedly said to her her daughter: "What did God tell the man to do with his son? God told the man to kill his son."

"God said to forgive his son," the daughter replied.

That's when Shoffner grabbed her daughter by her hair and slammed her head into the wall, the report states.

With every mistake, Shoffner slammed the daughter's head into the wall, according to the report. She then began to strangle her daughter and when her daughter fought back, Shoffner bit her.

That's when the daughter was able to flee the scene and call police.

Shoffner was arrested shortly thereafter.

A preliminary hearing has been set for March 29.

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