Sick religion
Police investigate religious links after witchcraft abuse of child, 8
Police and child protection experts are to investigate the extent of child abuse linked to religious practices after three adults who branded an eight-year-old child a witch and tortured her for months were yesterday convicted of child cruelty offences.
The girl, known only as child B, was an orphan from war-ravaged Angola and brought to Britain by her aunt who falsely claimed to be her mother.
She was cut with a knife on her chest, had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes, was starved and repeatedly slapped, kicked and beaten. Yesterday an Old Bailey jury convicted her aunt, who cannot be named for legal reasons, Sita Kisanga, 35, and her brother Sebastian Pinto, 33, of child cruelty charges.
Religion doesn’t just make you sick. Religion is sick.
Saturday 04 Jun 2005 | Paul | The Pit
