Minnesota pastor beat boy because 12-year-old wanted to test God, police say

The wind chill was well below zero when the 12-year-old boy limped his way through the snow, wearing only basketball shorts and a T-shirt, to a stranger.

“Help me,” the boy yelled. He later revealed a black eye, large whip marks, scabs on his back and bruising on his arms, backside and legs — one the size of a football, according to police.

The boy had been running away from a church in North Minneapolis, where police say a pastor physically abused him over the course of four days, repeatedly beating him with a two-by-four wooden plank and an electrical cord as punishment for rejecting his faith.

The pastor, Dong Wook Kim, 51, was charged with two counts of assault in the second- and third-degree, and one count of malicious punishment of a child, all felonies, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday in Hennepin County District Court. The pastor’s 19-year-old son, Joo Seong Kim, faces the same charges.

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