Commenting on your "similar but boring case", there have actually been cases in which 'parents' - and I use the term in the loosest biological sense only - have killed their children, not to send them to hell, but to prevent them from reaching the age of majority. It's a perverse act of mercy, in their minds, to keep them forever innocent and pure (and dead) so that they are guaranteed a seat in Heaven.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
