Two sisters charged with torturing girl, 5, and boy, 8, in alleged voodoo rituals in East Bridgewate

[Voltaire2]

The Randolph hairstylist said her two young children — a 5-year-old girl and an 8-year-old boy — had been behaving badly “due to evil spirits,’’ so last month she took them to two sisters who she claimed could cast out the demons.

During a five-day period in an East Bridgewater apartment, according to police documents, one of the sisters threatened to cut off the boy’s head. They allegedly blew fire into the girl’s face, burning her and inflicting permanent disfigurement. And on two occasions, the sisters and the girl’s mother held her down, and used a sharp object resembling a needle to cut her arm and collarbone area.

Police charged the women with abusing the children but the sisters said they were practicing their religion, Haitian voodoo.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2018/02/02/two-sisters-charged-with-torturing-girl-5-and-boy-8-in-alleged-voodoo-rituals-in-east-bridgewater

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Sickening.

All three should spend much time in prison. Those poor children.

[MustLoveBeagles]

2. Yep

[struggle4progress]

3. They can believe whatever they want to believe. And they can say whatever they want to say

about what they believe. But if their actions conflict with a law of general scope, designed to protect some legitimate public interest, then they'll be prosecuted. There's a legitimate public interest in protecting children from abuse, and there are laws of general scope intending to serve that interest. So the courts can enforce those laws. People can still say whatever they want to say about what they believe