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January 21, 2004

Undemonising the Child

by Red Wolf

United States: Looks like another pair of fundies will be pleading the cast out the devil for your own good defence.

A husband and wife have been charged with murdering a 6-year-old girl whose back was broken in what police said may have been an exorcism gone wrong...
...Police said the dead girl, whose body was discovered in a motel room, had been strangled and stabbed, and her back was broken. An autopsy was planned.
Based on what the adults told authorities, investigators believe they were involved possibly in a ritual of some sort, police spokesman John Quigley said. It may have had something to do with undemonizing the child in some manner...
...Police learned of the death around 12:30 a.m. when the unidentified man and woman were seen walking naked down a city street with two children, a 2-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl, Quigley said.

Couple charged in possible exorcism death - The Associated Press, 20th January 2004 (via die puny humans).

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