sentences:  Police said that the parents often locked the boy in a closet and forced him to pray to a picture of Jesus.The Smiths admitted disciplining their son by striking him with a glue stick, but claimed the punishment never rose to the level of abuse.The Smiths were members of the Brentwood, Tennessee-based Remnant Fellowship Church since they joined in 2000, which grew out of church leader Gwen Shamblin's Weigh Down Workshop, a Christian diet program she created in 1986.