A 55-year-old New Zealand man who beat his daughter over the head with a lump of concrete when she refused to go to his Mormon church “does not understand what all the fuss is about”, the District Court in Hastings heard this week.
After suffering a bout of double vision, Joseph Smith founded the Mormon Church
Uluia Muliipu appeared in court after pleading guilty to one count of assault with intent to injure.
According to this report, Judge Geoff Rea said that on February 22 this year Muliipu had become involved in an argument with his daughter who refused to attend church.
He chased her down the street and back into the house, picking up a lump of concrete along the way.
He whacked her over the head with the concrete in a bedroom, then kicked her in the face causing bruising.
Judge Rea said:
When police arrived you told them your daughter was lucky you did not kill her.
Mulipu’s daughter was taken to Hawke’s Bay Hospital with head injuries.
Defence lawyer Roger Stone told the court Muliipu had been angry his daughter refused to go to church. He was a “proud” man who was “disappointed” his daughter had elected not to follow his Mormon faith.
Judge Rea said a probation officer’s report made “grim reading” because he:
Still does not understand what all the fuss is about.
He had been ejected from an anger management course because of his views and had an inability to understand that:
Whacking someone on the head is unacceptable.
In the circumstances, the judge concluded, there was only one course of action, and he jailed Muliipu for 12 months.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
July 10th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
Aaahh…
Can't you just feel the love?
And re: the picture… you'd think that if the Supreme Being™ was going to reveal himself to mankind, he could do better than a pair of Kenny Rogers clones whose feet have been amputated.
July 11th, 2009 at 7:35 am
Why wasn't this fuckwit arrested and tried for attempted murder?
Or is NZ getting soft on these bloody freaks?
July 11th, 2009 at 7:57 am
This moron has taken his bible literally; isn't there a passage about "dashing children upon rocks"
The daughter sounds OK though, not wanting to go to church.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:53 am
Re: the picture,why are there two of them? Is the plural of Jesus Jesi?
July 11th, 2009 at 11:13 am
jebuses – I think the plural is.
you wait 2,000 years and then two arrive at once….
And from the position of the guy in the drawing, it looks like they're demanding a blow job too.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I understand that Smith was confronted by by both God AND Jesus while wandering in the woods. Don't ask which is which.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Only went away for 12 months? For effectively attempted murder?
Does the British judicial system run New Zealands as well?
July 11th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
So it boils down to go to church or get stoned. Now where have we heard that before?
July 12th, 2009 at 1:21 am
Speaking as a very embarrassed kiwi, I must point out that the vast majority of my countrymen are strongly secular – in fact tourist guidebooks advice that you don't talk religion at all with the locals. Unfortunately, the tiny number of us who are religious have more than their fair share of wingnuts. This is, sadly, particularly true of pacific islander communities, who come from a strong religious tradition to start with. Don't get me wrong, most are perfectly decent, but then you'll get spectacular fruit-loops like this guy.
And yes, our justice system sucks.
July 12th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Love Jesus's gesture, BTW: "Blow god first".
July 12th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Well, Gronk, Ray Comfort is one of yours…;0)
July 12th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
I think Smith is saying: "I must have drunk too much – I can see TWO Charlton Hestons standing before me!"
July 12th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Or maybe he was thumped on the head with a lump of concrete …
July 13th, 2009 at 6:34 am
Well he was. By all means keep him. No, I insist!
July 27th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Look guys, its rite but u are not the judge to what dis man did, we dont have the full story of how it came to happen or what could have happened, only the man up above really knows what happen.
What every man does is every man, but as for the Religon, dont go bad mouthing religon, every one is judge on their own actions