A young woman living downstairs from the victim in Wisconsin told police that while on a car trip with them to Ohio, one of the men quizzed the boy about the Koran. When he did not reply quickly or correctly enough, the driver pulled off the road and beat the boy. He had appeared in school to register with two black eyes, but had not attended, his brother excusing his absences from sickness. Witnesses recalled seeing the boy limping through the streets looking ghoulish, apparently from his real wounds, on Halloween. A report of suspected abuse was not followed through when police could not easily reach the family at home.
Authorities contend the investigation was hampered because none of the suspects speaks English.
The victim's adult relatives were in custody of police. The newspaper reports that earlier this year, the Coalition teamed up with the National Beer Wholesalers to support a measure to restrict lobbying by nonprofit groups receiving federal grants. A bank of 30 phones at the coalition's headquarters in Chesapeake, Virginia, can tie up Congressional phones. They'd have Christian Coalition members calling the districts, and we'd have beer wholesalers and their employees calling as well. However, Coalition supporters in Congress are hard at work on measures to enact such a scheme.