Vegan Buddhists Pummel Their Toddler for Eating Meat

Vegans abusing children? What a shock! Meet Jacky Tran. Really, that’s his name. The only Kung-Fu he uses is on three year olds when they are caught eating meat. He nearly crushed the skull of his own child for doing so, claiming that the meat caused his kid to be possessed by a demon.

From the Chron here with thanks to Trench:

Both parents of a 3-year-old Houston boy beat him with bamboo sticks and poked his feet with chopsticks in a violent attempt to remove demons from his body. The parents, devout Buddhists and vegetarians, believed demons entered the boy through meat he ate.

Phung Tran, 36, and her husband, Jacky Tran, 35, are charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury, a first-degree felony. He was arrested at the scene, but his wife was charged Monday. Both face up to life in prison if convicted.

Police visited the Tran’s home after 7 p.m. Saturday after a security alarm sounded.  When they arrived, all the windows were open and Buddhist chants were blaring from within. Through an upstairs window, Jacky Tran could be seen repeatedly punching down with his fist.  During a lull in the loud music, deputies heard a child screaming. Inside, they found the naked, battered, barely conscious boy in his mother’s arms in the bathtub.

The beating left the little boy unresponsive, his head maroon from bruising, his eyes nearly swollen shut.  Medics flew the boy to the hospital, where he was being treated for multiple skull fractures. Officials said he is expected to survive.

Child Protective Services has placed the couple’s older daughter in foster care and planned to ask a judge for custody of both children.

What pleasant parents. I really hope the kids get a chance to live in a loving home where they can eat some cheeseburgers. For more uplifting stories about vegans and their precious children click here.