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A Massachusetts man killed his father while “baptizing” him in a pond, in an attempt to exorcise his alcoholic dad’s demons, prosecutors said Tuesday.
The 19-year-old allegedly told cops he was exorcising a demon named “Dirty Dan” and gave his dad a choice to go to heaven with him or hell as they were both in the pond, the newspaper reported.
“I believe he chose hell,” Callahan allegedly told cops.
The younger Callahan, who was in wet clothes, told his mother, Wendy, he didn’t know where her ex-husband was despite riding in an Uber together with his father from Boston to Duxbury, the Boston Globe reported.
Jack Callahan initially claimed he blacked out when his father hit him several times at Crooker Memorial Park, where police said Scott Callahan’s body was found in Island Creek Pond.
He was later pronounced dead at a hospital and a prosecutor said an autopsy found water in his lungs and an abrasion to the back of his head, the Globe reported.
“He believed he was baptizing his father,” Plymouth County District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said in court Tuesday. “He was holding his father in the pond on his back like a baby and that he continually dunked his head under the water about four to eight times.”
When Jack Callahan began to choke and started fighting back, his son allegedly hit him and pushed “his head back down” into the water, Buckingham said.
“He did so until his father was floating and no longer struggling,” the prosecutor said.
Jack Callahan pleaded not guilty to murder at his arraignment in Plymouth District Court. He was ordered held without bail.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06...his-father-duxbury-due-court-tuesday-morning/
