Dallas-area pastor gets 99 years in boy's starvation death

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 1:04 pm, Saturday, March 24, 2018

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas-area pastor who investigators say ordered that food be withheld from a toddler in order to rid him of a demon has been sentenced to 99 years in prison in the child's 2015 starvation death.

The Dallas Morning News reports that a jury on Friday convicted 52-year-old Aracely (ar-uh-SEL'-ee) Meza of felony injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

Investigators say Meza and the boy's parents believed the 2-year-old had a demon inside him and that fasting would save him. Prosecutors believe Benjamin Aparicio (ah-puh-REE'-see-oh) was denied food for more than three weeks.

Police began investigating after receiving a tip that congregants at the evangelical nondenominational church had held a failed resurrection ceremony before the parents took the body to their native Mexico. Video of that ceremony was shown at the trial.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Dallas-area-pastor-gets-99-years-in-boy-s-12778805.php

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Religious faith can kill

[truthisfreedom]

3. Horrible.

[LiberalLovinLug]

4. I realize that we are dealing with a cult addled brain but

...Why would starving the physical body, rid the person of a spiritual infestation? Wouldn't that be the probable strategy of some evil entity? to fool authorities into harming its host? What?..Did she(?) think she was playing some game of chicken where this evil spirit would abandon the child just before he died? And if not...oh well, at least this spirit didn't have a home anymore. Sick.