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United States: A woman has been arrested on suspicion that she drowned then beheaded her six-year-old daughter because she allegedly believed the girl was a demon. But the church in the background to this case isn't the usual bunch of evengelical Christians:
But it's a Sacramento connection that makes the case take a strange twist. In court documents filed by Washington state prosecutors, investigators and family members allege Samara Spann was part of a Sacramento cult that worshipped deceased rap music artist Tupac Shakur.
A family friend who did not want to be identified said:She has Tupac posters, Tupac everything. Like why does she like him so much? ... It was like an obsession.
In the same court documents, Samara Spann reportedly told a Sacramento friend that she thought her daughter was a demon:This friend told her that if the child in fact was a demon, that the mother needed to cut its head off.
In Washington, investigators recovered a blood stained carpet. In Sacramento, when confronted with that evidence, the same investigators say the mother confessed to cutting her own child's head off and then dumping it off a bridge.
Mother Accused Of Killing, Beheading Daughter - KCRA 3, 14th June 2005.
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1: Posted by: Cat Vincent | June 19, 2005 10:57 PM
Thanks for posting this one, Feòrag... there seems to be an awful lot of this kind of horror going on right now. I see it as a sign of future shock, this retreat into fundamentalism and barbarity - I just hope the species outgrows it with minimal loss of life. But at the same time (as a professional exorcist and occult consultant who puts the clients' health and well-being above everything) I am disgusted.
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