I’m sure violent acts like this have taken place regularly, just not usually filmed. This child looked about six or seven months old, big and strong. The Catholics like them to be only a few weeks old, then they are less likely to fight back, but just bawl their eyes out. This is a Russian Orthodox baptism and has this three time rule to represent the trinity presumably...have to be immersed in the name of the father, the son and the Holy Ghost. If the child was only immersed once the voodoo would only be one third effective! Why does anyone think this would be a sacking offence when raping and sodomising isn’t.

That is the most fucked up way to handle a child ever. And then refusing to give the child to the mother because he felt obligated to dunk the child at least two more times??? I'd have straight up beat the shit out of him. Here, hold my baby...

I hope he gets taken to court. One of these days he will kill - and then, maybe the church will fire him, or transfer him to some other parish. They don't like to solve problems. They like to move the problem around, make sure he can abuse more innocents.

My in-laws insisted my first born be christened. I was Protestant so no used to Catholic baptism. Priest was drunk and couldn’t get my baby’s name right then almost dropped him in the font at which point I was done and grabbed him back. Priest tried to hold on but being drunk and me elbowing him in the gut and stepping on his foot made him let go. I’m not sure my son is baptized because he never completed the exercise. I didn’t even bother with the other two.

He wouldn't be alive. Just saying.

Priests, Nuns, preachers, evangelists, all have a superiority complex, and think they are entitled to do whatever they want, no matter who they hurt.

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Things like this won't stop unless there's cameras and an officer present in every church around the world. That way, they could be held accountable for all the laws and hate speech they break.

2 hits me hitting him him hitting the floor . Not that I'd put my child through that in the first place

And this is the #1 reason I keep my kids well away from religious people. They're fucking crazy and violent.

This man should be jailed for child abuse!

The priest tells lies the way my high school students do. "I didn't do anything wrong, and it's not my fault."

Disgusting

Wacko!!!

His employer suspended him … suspended!!! … not fired ... and probably only because the images are bad for business.

The priest has justified his actions, saying the mother and her family were not sufficiently religious.
"It was all about the mother's high emotions," he told Russian news organisation Channel Five.
"She is a person without church experience. She was not ready for the christening."
He says nothing happened, and it was not his fault at all.
But the child's mother tells a different story.
"He did everything to hurt the child," said Anastasia Aleexeva.

The crazy shit you can get away with under the guise of religion sometimes blows my mind. Especially when it involves children...

I don't agree or approve, but I suspect that this happens all the time. I didn't see any 'slamming', just aggressive dunking; and they have to do it quick to try and keep the kids startled and confused so they don't struggle as much.
Not sure why the mother was surprised, not that I blame her... Oh wait. She handed her child over to be 'dunked' by some religious dude, so her hands aren't clean either. Either she knew what was going to happen, or she should have.
Ya, I saw that she tried to get the baby back, but the ceremony wasn't complete, and I'm sure the priest thought more harm would come to the kid if he didn't finnish. Some delusions can seem more real than real life.
Again, I don't approve or condone the actions, just dissecting what I saw in the video.

That priest should NOT have got away with that.

In the secular world, this person would spend years in prison, and probably die there. In the religious world? This creep probably got a promotion.

This is terrible and unfortunate!

I believe this priest is possessed by the devil and should be exorcised. On the otherhand he just could be a asshole.

And yet god approves of this? Yikes!

Holy shit. That gave me the cold chills.

I was disappointed in the mom for giving him her already crying baby, but then very impressed that she tried to intervene when he began abusing the child. That must have gone against everything she was raised to believe and do! I feel so bad for the kid; he won't forget that experience.