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England: A Londonpastor has been arrested and is being questioned about allegations that he incited child cruelty. Dr Dieudonne Tukala of the Church of Christ Mission in Tottenham is alleged to have accused several children of witchcraft and recommended violent solutions to their parents.
Dr Dieudonne Tukala, 46, from the Church of Christ Mission, is being questioned over claims that he diagnosed several children aswitches, advising their parents to beat the devil out of them or send them back to the Democratic Republic of Congo so that he could pray for them to be killed.
Such superstitious beliefs are common within some African Christian churches, and the Daily Telegraph, based on BBC reports, gives several cases which have resulted in convictions or suicide. Not even a fœtus is safe:
The same report also interviewed the former wife of a Congolese man, Nzuzi Mayingi, 26, found hanged in Crystal Palace Park, having committed suicide 18 months after he arrived in Britain as an asylum seeker.
She alleged to the BBC that when she was pregnant with the couple's second son, Dr Tukala had accused her, their son, and their unborn son of all being possessed, known askendoki. Her husband, who had deeply-held beliefs in witchcraft, beat her then threw her out of their home, she said.
If someone is thought to be kendoki in our country in the Congo, they can kill you. You would die with your children,said the woman, who is now living in the north of England, having reportedly received threats.
A police respresentative was keen to point out that There was no suggestion, ... that the issues related solely to Congolese, or that the issues related generally to the Congolese community
. Indeed. The newspaper does not mention a case, also in London, from last year when three people were convicted of cruelty to an Angolan girl. In that case, she was cut with a knife, beaten with a belt and shoe and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes to beat the devil out of her
Pastor is arrested after inquiry into claims of cruelty to 'child witches'—Daily Telegraph, 13th January 2006. See also Three convicted of 'witch' girl abuse—Pagan Prattle, 3rd June 2005.
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January 15, 2006 8:48 PM
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The Satanic abuse myth never went away, but if you read this tale beyond the headline, you will discover it concerns genuine child abuse done for religious reasons - Christian ones, with a heavy dose of superstition.
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January 18, 2006 8:31 AM
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I'm going to repeat something, with a slight variation - you'll obviously recognise the start of the quote, as well .....
Evangelism, witnessing and similar activitites go by one name (here) - Blackmail, and it is no different from any other form of that criminal activity, in extracting money from, and altering the behaviour of its victims.
And.... Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labours of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
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January 19, 2006 5:49 PM
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Being a strong Christian woman, I don't condone witchcraft as it is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord, but there's a fine and thick line between disipline and abuse.
If she were my daughter, I would give her heck for doing witchcraft but I'd never abuse her for it. I would instead sat down with her and explained to her the sinful imorality of it and then prayed with her to repent her sins to the Lord.
The whole situation sounds so sick and revolting and what comes around, goes around.
If that Wolf-in-sheeps-clothing called the Preacher, and that abusive woman don't repent of what they had done, they'll end up in hell and the same will happen to them---except it'll be much worse.
I have visions of heaven and hell, and believe me, if they could see what I see, they'd repent in a heartbeat.
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January 19, 2006 9:33 PM
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Messenger - please read the article again. This is n't the usual child abuse that gets described as 'discipline' by those whose religion tells them to practice non-consensual SM with children. The children and fœtuses weren't doing anything. The so-called-witchcraft exists entirely in the minds of Christian adults. I suppose if you believe one ludicrous superstition (that there's a big, beardy guy in the sky that takes an obsessive interest in our personal lives, for example), it would seem completely reasonable that a fœtus is casting spells on people.
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January 15, 2006 5:43 PM | Reply
Please tell me this isn't starting again! Didn't we learn ANYTHING the last time? Have the Burning Times actually stopped, or did it just go underground? When you hate and fear others, it's bound to leak out around the edges somewhere, then people get hurt, and sadly, in this case it's the littlest ones who can't defend themselves that get hurt.
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