A woman in Nantucket, Massachusetts, accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter last spring in an alleged exorcism attempt will undergo more psychological evaluation to determine her responsibility for the act.
In a hearing last month a judge found Tejada competent to stand trial.
Family members of a South African teenager killed in a gruesome ‘exorcism’ have expressed shock that bail has been granted to the five people accused of her murder.
The girl was tortured for three days and then brutally murdered by having her intestines ripped out.
A teenager in the South African town of Umlazi, accused by relatives of being possessed by demons, was tortured for three days and then brutally murdered.
A couple convicted for torturing and murdering a 15-year-old boy they accused of using witchcraft have been jailed for life.
Football coach Eric Bikubi, 28, has been ordered to serve at least 30 years. His partner, Magalie Bamu, 29, will serve a minimum of 25 years.
A couple have been found guilty of murdering a teenager they had accused of using witchcraft.
After days of ‘feral’ torture Kristy Bamu drowned in a bath on Christmas Day in 2010, during torture to produce exorcism, an Old Bailey jury heard.
The father and step-mother of a 14-year-old girl from western Sweden were charged on Friday with repeatedly beating and burning the girl because they “thought she was a witch”, according to the prosecutor.
Police in South Korea arrested a pastor and his wife Saturday after three of their four children were found dead.
The couple has been detained on suspicions of assaulting and starving their children to death
A woman in Nantucket, Massachusetts, accused of killing her 3-year-old daughter in an alleged exorcism attempt is competent to stand trial, according to a finding in Barnstable Superior Court on Thursday.
Dora Alicia Tejada Pleitez, 26, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of her daughter, Nicole Garcia.
Exorcism was the motivation for repeated attacks against a 14 year-old girl from western Sweden who was regularly beaten and burned by her father and stepmother, who wanted to rid the girl of “evil spirits”, prosecutors allege.
The girl may have been beaten and burned over a long period of time in order to drive out demons.
An evangelical pastor and his sister have been arrested by police in Bolivia after they purportedly killed a sibling during a bathtub exorcism, officials said Monday.
The suspects, Carlos Uriona and Adelaida Marca, were arrested after they allegedly drowned their sister during the ritual