Trial date set in ‘Biblical Chastisement’ death of girl
Why extreme Christian Fundamentalists shouldn’t be allowed to adopt?
OROVILLE — A Paradise couple are scheduled to stand trial in November on murder and torture charges involving two adopted children.
Kevin Schatz, 40, and his wife, Elizabeth Schatz, 42, pleaded not guilty in Butte County Superior Court on Thursday to the charges, which could carry two life terms in prison.
They are accused of causing the death of a 7-year-old adopted girl and serious injuries to her 11-year-old sister during separate “biblical chastisements” with a whip-like instrument in February at the family home.