Tag: Jessica Bain Carson

In today’s Religion News Briefs: An appeals court has upheld the capital murder conviction of a woman whose baby was killed during an alleged ‘exorcism.’

The Salt Lake Tribune introduces two new reporters for its Polygamy Blog.

A U.S. publisher is researching the possibility to publish a tell-all book on the notoriously litigious Scientology cult in Canada — despite that country’s antiquated, free-speech curtailing libel laws.

Plus: a baker in Oregon claims his religious convictions prevent him from baking a wedding cake for a lesbian couple.

A couple who told authorities they were trying to rid a toddler of demonic possession when she died, have been indicted for her murder.

The brutal murder included the child being beaten with a hammer, slammed into stationary objects and finally strangled.

An arrest affidavit states Milam performed an exorcism of the demons purportedly possessing their child.