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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA pastor starved a toddler for 25 days to exorcise demons. She got 99 years in prison.
Aracely Meza held the childs limp body in her arms as worshipers looked on. She spoke loudly into a microphone, chanting words in Spanish as she stroked the childs hair and rubbed something on his forehead.
The scene captured in a video was a ceremony to resurrect the lifeless 2-year-old boy. He died after more than three weeks without food. Meza, a Dallas-area pastor and a self-proclaimed prophet, had claimed that God wanted the boy starved to get rid of demons inhabiting his body.
Now, three years later, Meza is set to spend the rest of her life in prison for Benjamin Aparicios starvation death.
A Dallas County jury found the 52-year-old guilty on Friday of felony injury to a child causing serious bodily injury, the Dallas Morning News reported. She was sentenced to 99 years in prison and ordered to pay $10,000 in fines.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/03/25/a-pastor-starved-a-toddler-for-25-days-to-exorcise-demons-she-got-99-years-in-prison/?utm_term=.dcfc3f3d9e45
OnDoutside
(19,906 posts)Vinca
(50,168 posts)tblue37
(64,979 posts)Vinca
(50,168 posts)It's hard to imagine how people can be this batshit crazy.
whathehell
(28,968 posts)Who is extraditable to where is based on citizenship and law, not race... Everything really isn't about race, as much as that seems
to elude some here.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)why wasnt this vile woman charged with 1st degree, premeditated homicide? I think a death sentence, in this case, merits use. Just sayin.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)I'm sorry that sort of thing just strikes me as weird. What would be the penalty for not paying it?
Not trying to minimise the tragedy.
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)safeinOhio
(32,527 posts)The Lord works in Mysterious ways.
superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Eom