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Friday August 21, 2009
Human Trafficking • Ritual Killing:
A Uganda newspapers has learnt that Police earlier this year, acting on a tip-off, sanctioned an investigation into claims that some wealthy people in the country are responsible for the spiralling acts of child human sacrifice in the country. According to an investigating officer 40 children have lost their lives to ritual killings this year alone.
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Sunday March 1, 2009
Ritual Killing:
Gruesome stories of people, especially children, being killed by parents, friends, and strangers in horrific ritual practices have become common in the news from Uganda in the last four months.At least 25 ritual murders involving children were confirmed in Uganda in 2006. In the same year, there were 230 cases of child abduction. The cases dropped to 108 in 2007, but then increased to 318 in 2008. So far in 2009, 18 cases of child sacrifice have been recorded, 15 of which have been investigated.
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Thursday August 21, 2008
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing • Witchcraft:
Prosecutors say 26-year-old Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., who faces two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly killing his 8- and 10-year-old stepdaughters in January, was practicing satanism and carefully planned the killings as a part of a spell or ritual from “The Satanic Bible.”Shortly after the girls’ deaths, police said Harris told them they had died during a spell that “had gone bad.”
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Thursday January 24, 2008
Ritual Killing:
Milton Blahyi, a former feared rebel commander in Liberia’s brutal civil war, has admitted to taking part in human sacrifices as part of traditional ceremonies intended to ensure victory in battle.
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Saturday January 12, 2008
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing:
Marla Harris said Wednesday she still doesn’t know what happened Sunday at the home she shared with her husband, who is accused of killing her daughters in a ritual slaying.
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Wednesday January 9, 2008
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing:
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. told police he “had been casting a spell that had gone bad, and that the spell could have had severe consequences,” according to court documents.
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Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing • Witchcraft:
Two young sisters who were murdered during a ritual slaying Sunday knew more about witchcraft then they should have for their age, a local pastor said. Pastor Cary Gordon of Cornerstone World Outreach said Kendra Suing, 10, and Alysha Suing, 8, bombarded a bus driver for the church with questions after a summer lesson about the sinfulness of practicing witchcraft.
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Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing:
Their stepfather, Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., 25, has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kendra Suing, 10, and Alysha Suing, 8.
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Sunday September 2, 2007
Danijel Jakupek • Ritual Killing • Satanism:
“The murders were not committed for the sake of the murder, rather they are typical of a cult-inspired ritual. Everything we found in the suspect’s house points to that conclusion,” Lukovic’ said.
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Danijel Jakupek • Ritual Killing • Satanism:
Police found what they described as satanic cult literature while searching the suspect’s house. Manuals on body dismemberment were also discovered, unofficial sources say.
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Danijel Jakupek • Ritual Killing • Satanism:
A man was arrested Saturday on suspicion that he killed a 5-year-old boy and his uncle and dismembered them in a satanic ritual, Serbian police said.
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Friday November 3, 2006
Ritual Killing:
Anson County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a woman they say admitted slaying a sheep, goat and chickens and spreading their blood on her mother’s grave as part of a religious ceremony.
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Wednesday August 16, 2006
Ritual Killing:
The story of toddler, Edrine Muguluma who was recently kidnapped and murdered in ritual sacrifice has shocked the nation. He is one of many children that are increasingly being killed in cold blood on the orders of witchdoctors and traditional healers that we must find a solution to.
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Thursday June 29, 2006
Ritual Killing:
Fear of alleged cult members out to abduct and kill young children has caused attendance in some schools in northern Negros to drop and officials are taking measures to address the problem.
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Ritual Killing:
Police in Toboso town in northern Negros are determined to solve the successive killings of two children recently as it downplayed reports that some cult members may have been behind the death of the kids.
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Tuesday June 27, 2006
Ritual Killing:
The police have arrested two members of an alleged cultist group believed responsible for the mysterious death of a 6-year-old boy whose mutilated body was found floating in a river in Toboso, Negros Occidental.
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Saturday June 17, 2006
Ritual Killing:
Authorities suspect a satanic cult is responsible for slitting the throats of six members of the same family in Colombia.
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Monday April 10, 2006
Ritual Killing:
If you were doubting that some people sell human parts for a living, this is the time to believe. Home Affairs Minister Anne Kachikho has revealed in parliament that police have discovered some of the traffickers and they are rounding them up.
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Monday March 27, 2006
Ritual Killing:
Even in a country grown accustomed to horrific acts of violence, it is a crime that still shocks. ''Muti murder'', in which human body parts are removed to be used in traditional "medicine", is increasing in South Africa - but victims' families complain that the police too often ignore it.
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Thursday June 30, 2005
Ritual Killing:
The leader of Liberia's transitional government, Gyude Bryant, has promised to use the death penalty against anyone found guilty of sacrificial killings.
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Wednesday June 22, 2005
Ritual Killing:
Police in Kenya are holding three people in the coastal city of Mombasa, suspected of involvement in the ritual killing of children.
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Saturday June 18, 2005
Ritual Killing:
Allegations that African boys were being trafficked into Britain for slaughter during macabre church services were largely discredited by Scotland Yard last night.
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Thursday June 16, 2005
Ritual Killing:
A confidential report into the sacrifice and abuse of children at African churches describes how pastors are profiting from the trafficking of black boys into Britain.
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Tuesday May 31, 2005
Ritual Killing:
Abuja - Police in south-western Nigeria arrested a pastor and two others on Monday over their apparent involvement in the ritual killing of a seven-year-old boy.
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Monday April 18, 2005
Ritual Killing:
Detectives have examined the case files in London on a so-called ritual killing as part of Garda investigation into the headless body murder on the Royal Canal in Dublin.
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