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‘I left him there to decide, you can come to heaven with me or hell. I think he chose hell’ – Boston man who drowned his alcoholic father, 57, in baptism-style exorcism is GUILTY of manslaughter – Jack Callahan faces 20 years in prison

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1717&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>J<strong>ack Callahan from Duxbury&comma; Mass&period;&comma; was 19 when he <&sol;strong>drowned his alcoholic father Scott Callahan&comma; 57&comma; in a baptism-style exorcism in June 2021&comma; at a Massachusetts pond<&sol;strong> <&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1717&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Arrested in 2021 and charged with murdering his father<strong><strong>&comma; <strong>Jack Callahan&comma; now 22&comma; <&sol;strong>has been found guilty of manslaughter after an eight-day trial in Duxbury<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1717&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>After his arrest Jack told police that his father who was being treated for alcoholism was possessed by a &&num;8216&semi;demon&&num;8217&semi; that could be destroyed through exorcism<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1717&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Adding&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I left him there to decide&comma; you can come to heaven with me or hell&period; I think he chose hell&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h1 class&equals;"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;1f1717&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Following his conviction&comma; he is facing up to 20 years in prison at sentencing which is scheduled for May 3<&sol;strong><&sol;h1>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Jack-Callahan-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461076" style&equals;"width&colon;836px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Jack Callahan&comma; photo&rsqb;&comma; 22&comma; is facing two decades in prison&comma; convicted of drowing his father Scott Callahan during an &&num;8216&semi;exorcism&&num;8217&semi; in 2021&period; Jack was then 19&period; After an eight day trial he was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">A Banker&&num;8217&semi;s son who <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;30&sol;massachusetts-man-19-who-drowned-his-alcoholic-father-while-baptizing-the-drunken-man-in-a-pond-late-at-night-believed-he-was-exorcizing-his-dads-inner-demon-named-dirty-dan&sol;">drowned<&sol;a> his alcoholic father in a baptism-style exorcism has been found guilty&period; <br>Jack Callahan&comma; now 22&comma; was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after being charged with murder in 2021&comma; after an eight-day trial and 25 hours of deliberation&period; <br>Callahan went on trial mid April for the murder of his father Scott&comma; 57&comma; who was found by police floating in a pond outside Duxbury&comma; around 30 miles outside of Boston&comma; in June 2021&period;<br>He is facing up to 20 years in prison&comma; as per Massachusetts law&comma; and is scheduled to appear in court next on Friday&comma; May 3&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Scott-Callahan-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461078" style&equals;"width&colon;732px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Jack Callahan was on trial for the murder of his father Scott Callahan&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; 57&comma; who was found by police floating in a pond outside Duxbury&comma; around 30 miles outside of Boston&comma; in June 2021<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Related Articles&colon; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i0&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;Jack-Callahan-3&period;jpg&quest;resize&equals;174&percnt;2C131&amp&semi;ssl&equals;1" alt&equals;""&sol;><figcaption class&equals;"wp-element-caption"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;30&sol;massachusetts-man-19-who-drowned-his-alcoholic-father-while-baptizing-the-drunken-man-in-a-pond-late-at-night-believed-he-was-exorcizing-his-dads-inner-demon-named-dirty-dan&sol;">Jack Callahan allegedly&comma; told cops he abandoned his drunk father in the pond&comma; where he drowned&comma; after giving him a choice &OpenCurlyQuote;I left him there to decide&comma; you can come to &lbrack;&&num;8230&semi;&rsqb;<&sol;a><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2021&sol;06&sol;30&sol;massachusetts-man-19-who-drowned-his-alcoholic-father-while-baptizing-the-drunken-man-in-a-pond-late-at-night-believed-he-was-exorcizing-his-dads-inner-demon-named-dirty-dan&sol;"><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Jack Callahan&&num;8217&semi;s parents Wendy and Scott Callahan shared three sons Jack and his brothers&comma; Will and Charlie&period; The couple were divorced when Jack drowned Scott in 2021&period;<br>On the night&comma; then 19-year-old was bringing his recovering alcoholic dad home from a Boston bar when his mother&comma; Wendy&comma; called to say she would not have her ex-husband in their &dollar;1&period;5 million home in Duxbury&period; <br>After that exchange the teenager asked their Uber driver to pull over next to the pond around midnight&period; That is when the fatal water redemption service happened&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Jack-Callahan-3&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461086" style&equals;"width&colon;897px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>After acting judge and executioner&comma; 19-year-old Jack Callahan&comma; seen crying &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; during his arraignment&comma; was arrested after his father Scott Callahan who was found by police floating in a pond outside Duxbury&comma; around 30 miles outside of Boston&comma; in June 2021<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Callahan was on trial for the murder of his father Scott Callahan who was found by police floating in a pond outside Duxbury&comma; around 30 miles outside of Boston&comma; in June 2021&period;<br>The family lived in a &dollar;1&period;5 million five-bedroom house outside Duxbury&comma; but Scott who was divorced from Wendy had been receiving treatment for alcoholism at a center in Hopkinton before he checked himself out and headed for the bar in Boston&period; <br>His son Jack who had gone to fetch him from the bar told police at the time that his banker dad was possessed by a demon called &&num;8216&semi;Dirty Dan&&num;8217&semi; who he thought could be destroyed through baptism&period;<br>Dropped beside the pond by the Uber driver Jack told cops&comma; he grabbed his father and plunged his head under the water&comma; repeatedly&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I left him there to decide&comma; you can come to heaven with me or hell&period; I think he chose hell&comma;&&num;8217&semi; as he told cops after his arrest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Boston-cops-found-Scott-Callahan-in-Island-Creek-Pond-at-Crooker-Memorial-Park-in-2021&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461085" style&equals;"width&colon;838px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Police found Scott Callahan drowned in Island Creek Pond at Crooker Memorial Park in June 2021&period; His son Jack is facing up to 20 years in prison&comma; by Massachusetts law&comma; at sentencing scheduled for May 3<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Plymouth Assistant District Attorney Shanan Buckingham said at Callahan&&num;8217&semi;s 2021 arraignment&colon; &&num;8216&semi;He indicated that the victim had been punching him in the face&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He went on to state that in this incident at the pond&comma; he believed he was baptizing his father&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He described that he was holding his father in the pond on his back like a baby&comma; that he continually dunked the father&&num;8217&semi;s head in the water about four to eight times&comma; that when the father started to cough and choke&comma; he would lift his head up&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;And then when the father started to fight and strike him&comma; he would push the head back into the water&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;He did so until his father was no longer struggling and floating&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Scott-Callahan-with-his-wife-and-sons-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461090" style&equals;"width&colon;844px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Jack Callahan&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; with his father Scott&comma; alongside his mother Wendy and his two brothers Will and Charlie in 2016&period; Eight years later he faces two decades in prison after killing his dad <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Wendy-Callahan-with-her-sons-L-R-Jack-Will-and-Charlie-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461091" style&equals;"width&colon;842px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Wendy Callahan with her sons &lbrack;L-R&rsqb;&comma; Jack&comma; Will and Charlie&comma; a year before Scott&&num;8217&semi;s death&period; She was divorced from Scott when he was drowned by Jack <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Scott Callahan who graduated from Colorado State University according to his obituary was the Senior Vice President of Texas Capital Bank&comma; and had an &&num;8216&semi;extensive career in finance&&num;8217&semi;&period; <br>However he struggled with severe alcohol dependence&period; He had been receiving treatment for alcoholism at a center in Hopkinton before he checked himself out and headed for a Boston bar&comma; where his son went to fetch him&comma; that Sunday night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;04&sol;Scott-Callahan-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-461094" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Scott Callahan &lbrack;photo&rsqb; was a heavy drinker&period; He was been receiving treatment for alcoholism at a center in Hopkinton before he checked himself out and headed for a Boston bar that Sunday night where his son went to fetch him<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Wendy Callahan called police to report that her son was having a mental health episode and that her ex-husband was missing&period;<br>At trial prosecutor Buckingham said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;The mother indicated that the defendant had not exhibited this behavior before&comma; had no history of mental illness&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>Police then called an ambulance after finding jack Callahan &&num;8216&semi;worked up and distraught&&num;8217&semi;&comma; hyperventilating and passing out&period; Questioned he revealed that his father hit him&comma; and he did not know where he was&colon; &&num;8216&semi;He&&num;8217&semi;s missing&period; I don&&num;8217&semi;t know what happened&period; I blacked out&period;&&num;8217&semi;<br>When eventually he directed police to Crooker Memorial Park&comma; cops who found Scott in Island Creek Pond he was taken to Plymouth&&num;8217&semi;s Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital where he was pronounced dead&period;<br>The 19-year-old Jack was arrested the following day and pled not guilty at the first hearing in 2021&period;<br>Defense attorney Kevin Reddington at the time asked the judge to send the teen homicide suspect to Bridgewater State Hospital for a mental health evaluation&comma; which the judge denied&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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