Since he had shown his willingness to make a teenaged girl pregnant, he had no moral grounds to object to giving Becky what she wanted. She rationalized to herself that it was his duty as her husband to make her pregnant and give her the baby she had always wanted. If he wouldn’t provide her with a proper baby of her own, she thought to herself, then he would be her baby! Once she had changed Joe into a helpless infant, she left him where he lay helplessly on the bed and went to the garage.

Becky had been collecting discarded furniture and objects from the members of her group for over two months for a garage sale to raise money to buy ritual accoutrements for the Coven’s meetings.