December 4, 2009 1:04 pm

Mother expects God to provide food, ends up starving her five kids

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Like an unfortunately large percentage of Americans, a New Jersey mother lost her job in 2006. Unlike other Americans, she made no effort to find a job, instead expecting God to supply for her five kids. Yesterday, three of the children of 50-year-old Estelle Walker testified against her for starving them for approximately three months.

turkey dinner Mother expects God to provide food, ends up starving her five kids

Eating this outside of the Walker household clad in a white robe and beard would just be cruel.

Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort to scrounge up a meal, her kids told a jury yesterday.

“We were supposed to wait for God to provide,” said Walker’s oldest daughter, now 21. “And that’s what we did.”

At one point, the daughter said, she and her siblings went 11 days without food. When police were at last summoned to the Sussex County cabin by neighbors, investigators found the children so malnourished they had difficulty talking.

Walker is charged with four counts of second-degree child endangerment (apparently the court wasn’t a big fan of one of the kids). The kids’ testimony said that she never sought help from neighbors, relatives, or even the two nearby churches to feed the kids. Reports say the kids weren’t embittered or angry during their testimony, which is a pretty remarkable testament to them growing up as good people. I’d have probably ended up on a 10 minute profanity-laced tirade about her or drawing a pentagram in blood.

So, there you go, lesson learned. God will not provide food for you without any effort on your part. Unless you’re part of Pac-Man’s family, in which case delicious and nutritious fruits regularly drop from the sky. Little known fact: Power pellets are actually communion wafers.