Texas Woman Arrested in Alleged Attempt to Resurrect Dead Toddler

[KamaAina]

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-woman-arrested-alleged-attempt-resurrect-dead-toddler-n340976

A Texas woman has been charged in an investigation of a Dallas-area church involving what police said appeared to be an attempt to raise a 2-year-old child from the dead, according to court documents.

The woman, Aracely Meza, whom Texas incorporation records list as the secretary of Congregacional Pueblo de Dios in the town of Balch Springs, was charged with injury to a child by omission, police told NBCDFW. The station reported that Meza was not the child's mother.

According to a request for a search warrant filed March 26, Balch Springs police got an anonymous tip the same day that a child had died at the church on March 21 or 22 without anybody's having reported it.

A witness described only as someone living at the church building told investigators that a "rising ceremony" was held March 22 "to attempt to resurrect Victim from the dead." When that failed, the child was wrapped in a blanket and "taken back to Mexico," according to the search warrant request.

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. I am stumped by that charge....

"injury to a child by omission"

google definition:
When a child is negligently, recklessly, intentionally, or knowingly injured by an act or omission by any person, then that person can be charged with felony child abuse.

But in this case, the child was deceased. So where did the omission come in...

[struggle4progress]

2. "Police say the pastors at a Balch Springs church starved a 2-year-old boy

they said was possessed by a demon, and later held a ceremony to resurrect the boy."
http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/police-say-pastors-at-balch-springs-church-starved-2-year-old-boy-because-they-thought-he-was-possessed-by-demon.html/

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. ooooh......ugh.....

These fundy churches are like magnets for sick warped minds, it seems.

[struggle4progress]

4. It's apparently some free-lance thing: the woman calls herself a "prophet"

and runs a "church" from her house

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Thing is..there are LOTS of independent churches, at least around here.

It is pretty easy for anyone to start a church, apparently.

And apparently this kook did that, along with a few other folks who joined in.

[KamaAina]

7. So it's not a non-prophet organization?

[UTUSN]

6. Isn't this the worst. n/t

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