TEACHER ARRESTED FOR MURDERING STUDENT

Excerpts taken from Associated Press

Springfield, MO: Craig Michael Wood was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 10-year-old Hailey Owens, after abducting her a few blocks from her home.

Witnesses said a man drove a gold Ford Ranger down the little girl’s Springfield neighborhood several times, then suddenly snatched her and sped away.

Woods, a 45-year-old middle school football coach and teacher’s aid, was charged with abducting Hailey as she walked home from a friend’s house on Tuesday.

Witnesses said they watched Hailey walk with a cell phone in her hand, as a man approached the fourth-grader to “ask for directions.” He suddenly grabbed her and threw her into the truck and sped off.

A resident, Ricky Riggins, tried to chase Wood in his car, but couldn’t catch up to him. Neighbors called 911 with the license plate number, but police found Hailey too late. Hailey's body was found shot in the head and stuffed in trash bags in the basement of Wood's home.

Wood began working for the Springfield School District in 1998. He is a seventh-grade football coach and teacher’s aid, who supervises in-school suspensions at Pleasant View Middle School, with students kindergarten through eighth grade.

Wood was convicted for possession of a controlled substance in 1990 and he was convicted for illegally taking wildlife. Wood is an avid hunter, reported CBSNews.com.

          The Word of God says,

“Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them, for it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret…awake you who sleeps and arise from the (spiritually) dead and Christ will give you light. See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil” Ephesians 5:11-12,14-16.

There has to be something very sinister and horribly wrong with a man who would abduct a 10-year-old child in broad daylight, while people are watching, kill her and stuff her body into trash bags; yet, it seems no one detected anything wrong with Wood at the middle school where he worked.

         The Bible says,

“This know also, that perilous times shall come, for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those who are good” 2 Timothy 3:1-3.

Do you know what kind of people are teaching your children? Do you know what kind of people are allowed to be around them? Do you know what your children are being taught in school?

Two five-year-old kindergarteners at a New Jersey school were caught "having sex" in the school bathroom. A parent coalition wanted to run an add against the explicit, X-rated, sex education program in one of their local elementary schools, but the paper refused to run the add due to the "pornographic content."

A Michigan woman is being charged with the murder and dismemberment of her own son!

A Washington man is being charged with squeezing his two-year-old daughter to death to get back at his wife!

Do you suppose we are living in perilous times, the last days, that the Word of God forewarns us about? As we near the end, the world will become more and more wicked. Jesus said,

"Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold" Matthew 24:12.

Today, more than ever, home education is something parents need to seriously consider. It may not be possible for some, but I have included some valuable information and suggestions for you on the Home Education page of this website.

“Jesus beheld them and said, 'With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible'” Matthew 19:26.

Are you prepared to stand before God and give an account of the life you have lived on this earth? If not, please visit the How Can I Be Saved page of this website. Your eternal destiny depends on it. God bless you.