Parents beat 9-year-old girl for 'being a witch'
Published: 18 Jan 13 12:47 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/45690/20130118/
Two parents from western Sweden are facing charges that they savagely beat a 9-year-old girl and forced her to drink her own urine because they thought she was a witch.
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She was also forced to drink a mixture of her own urine and cleaning fluid until she vomited.
The couple also tried to administer electric shocks in the girl's mouth, the local Borås Tidning (BT) newspaper reported.
The attacks allegedly took place in 2007 and 2008, but the girl only spoke of the incidents long after they took place.
Social services removed the girl from the care of the couple several years ago and she has since been placed in a foster home.
The man and the woman charged for attempting the violent exorcism deny committing any crimes.
"As far as I know, they still believe she could be a witch," prosecutor Daniel Larson told the TT news agency.
He added that the girl retold of several violent attacks carried out by her parents, but when drawing up the indictment he focused on some of the most serious attacks which carry a longer statute of limitation.
"There is information about how she was locked up, forced to cut her hair and wear a wig, and how she was accused of being a witch," Larson said.
The case is the second in the past year in which adults have been accused of abusing children thought to be witches.
In the previous case, all four adults were acquitted by the district court. However, an appeal hearing is scheduled for April.
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The world is going to hell in a hand cart.
Either way, they certainly missed the point.
I call that double standards !
I feel bad for the swedish people.
Even the media are trying to manipulate people's minds. Because a swede will never do such a stupid thing! Calling this psychos swedish is stupid.
The human detritus scumbags that are the subject of this "news" article aren't "Swedes" they're IMMIGRANTS! There's NOTHING "Swedish" about them.
So you're a mind reader now? Quick, what am I thinking about you at this moment?
Damn, you're good.
Once more..... (for the willfully stupid) if you bring people into your country who believe that children can be witches into your country ...... THEY'RE STILL GOING TO THINK THAT CHILDREN CAN BE WITCHES!!!!!!!
Just being in Sweden isn't going to make them act like Swedes, they're still going to act like sub-saharan AFricans.
We are talking about African voodoo witch rituals very common and wildly practised in the population that this globalist multicult government is imposing on the Swedish people that are soon becoming a minority. (100 000 pseudo refugees, Africans Turks and Arabs per year, already 2 000 000+++++ on a total of 9 000 000).
The owners of this anti Swedish paper can be prosecuted for hiding the truth and using a Christian rosary that represents white Christian European civilization for the past 1400 years.
Leftist a should be deported to Somalia , but don't dare to make my country become a savage hell !
Hey, if the local doesn't engage in its usual manipulatons, then what's to stop you from engaging in thoughtcrime?
They're just doing their part to keep the public stupid and uninformed.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/9811359/Parents-tried-to-exorcise-daughter-10.html
Absolutely pathetic from the local to report this story in such a way and to use a Christian Crucifix as the story picture, why not the flag of "The Democratic Republic of Congo"? I'm in no way a religious person but this is pretty low and offensive.
Sadly witchcraft stories like this are far too common in the UK amongst this migrant population, hard to get your head around it when you read the details of the cases, some of the sickest and most depraved behaviours possibly exhibited by humans.
At least give it the justice of accurate reporting....please!