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them with machetes; they
then marched to a police
station with victim's heads,
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According to police
 records, some 200
 people havebeen killed in
 Assam in the past five
 years for allegedly
 practicing witchcraft.

   Indian "Witchcraft"-family Beheaded

     A family of five has been beheaded in Sonitpur district, north-east India, by a mob who accused them of witchcraft.

The tea plantation worker and his four children had been blamed for causing a disease which killed two other workers and made many unwell in Assam state.

About 200 villagers tried and sentenced the family in an unofficial court, then publicly beheaded them with machetes.

They then marched to a police station with the heads, chanting slogans denouncing witchcraft and black magic.

Pregnant wife fled
   The incident occurred at the Sadharu tea plantation near the town of Biswanath Charali, about 300 km (190 miles) north of Guwahati, Assam's main city.

Sixty-year-old Amir Munda, who was killed alongside his two daughters and two sons, was reportedly a traditional healer.

After two plantation workers died and many others became ill from mysterious illness, other members of the Adivasi Santhal community accused him and his family of being the cause.

"A trial was held to prove if Munda and his family were involved in casting evil spells in the tea garden that led to a bout of epidemics in the area," police officer D Das said. "They said the killings would appease the gods.

"Munda's pregnant wife and her three young children managed to escape before the mob killed the other members of the family," A Hazarika, a local police official, told AFP.

Six people were arrested for the killings, Mr. Hazarika said.

According to police records, some 200 people have been killed in Assam in the past five years for allegedly practicing witchcraft.

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BEHEAD is a new word;  English speakers haven't heard this word in over 300 years.

Lion Kills Man Who Climbed Into Cage at Ukrainian Zoo

Monday, June 05, 2006

KIEV, Ukraine — A lion killed a man who climbed into its enclosure in the Ukrainian capital's zoo, police said Monday.

The lion attacked the 45-year-old Ukrainian late Sunday after he used a rope to climb down into an enclosure with four lions, said Kiev police spokesman Volodymyr Polishchuk.

He said the man, who was not identified, was acting aggressively and the lion seized him by the throat. The man, an ethnic Azerbaijani, died at the scene.

Ukrainian TV channel NTN broadcast interviews with witnesses who said the man told them that he wanted to test God, believing that God would not allow the lions to hurt him.

Zoo officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

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A US jury has found a
man guilty of killing his
sick 11-year-old
daughter by praying
for her recovery rather
thanseeking medical
care.

Praying man let his daughter die - Dale Neumann faces up to 25 years in prison

2009:
The man, Dale Neumann, told a court in the state of Wisconsin he believed God could heal his daughter.

She died of a treatable disease - undiagnosed diabetes - at home in rural Wisconsin in March last year, as people surrounded her and prayed.

Neumann's wife, Leilani Neumann, was convicted earlier this year.

The couple, who were both convicted of second-degree reckless homicide, face up to 25 years in prison when they are sentenced in October.

A lawyer representing Dale Neumann said he would appeal.

During the trial, medical experts told the court that Neumann's daughter could have survived if she had received treatment, including insulin and fluids, before she stopped breathing.

On Thursday Neumann, who is 47 and studied in the past to be a Pentecostal minister, said he thought God would heal his daughter.

"If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God," he said. "I am not believing what he said he would do."

He also said he thought his daughter had had flu or a fever, and that he had not realised how ill she was.

Neumann's lawyer said he had been convinced that his "faith healing" was working, and that he had committed no crime.

The prosecution argued that Neumann had minimised his daughter's illness and that he had allowed her to die as a selfish act of faith.

They said the girl should have been taken to hospital because she was unable to walk, talk, eat or drink.

Instead, an ambulance was only called once the girl had stopped breathing.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk

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Rare witchcraft charge laid

Fraud Alleged

National Post  December 11, 2009

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Police have invoked a rarely used witchcraft charge against a Toronto woman accused of defrauding a lawyer of nearly $150,000 after she reportedly suggested she was possessed by his dead sister's spirit.

Vishwantee Persaud, 36, is facing eight charges -- including two counts of fraud over $5,000 -- stemming from the nine-month relationship, said Detective-Constable Corey Jones of the Toronto police.

"The pretend-to-practice witchcraft charge is part and parcel of a larger fraud case in which she befriended a gentleman, who is a lawyer, claiming to be a third-year law student," he explained.

Det.-Const. Jones said the 51-year-old man -- identified by the Law Times legal publication as veteran criminal lawyer Noel Daley -- began to serve as a mentor to Ms. Persaud in February 2009. He paid her a modest wage.

As the two developed a friendship, Mr. Daley began to share personal facts about his life -- including information about his dead sister.

At that time, Det.-Const. Jones said, Ms. Persaud told him "she came from a long line of witches and she was capable of doing Tarot card readings."

Mr. Daley asked for a reading. "What she brought up in the reading was that the deceased sister's spirit had returned to Earth to guide him in business success and financial prosperity, and that the spirit of his sister had inhabited a female form close to him that he had recently met -- basically [implying] that it was her," Det.-Const. Jones said.

The law, outlined under Section 365 of the Canadian Criminal Code, doesn't make witchcraft illegal, but rather the deceitful practice of it: "Every one who fraudulently ... pretends to exercise or to use any kind of witchcraft, sorcery, enchantment or conjuration ... is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction."

Ms. Persaud pitched Mr. Daley a number of business opportunities -- including representing movie stars during the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Mr. Daley told the Law Times. He said he paid for clothing, spa treatments, office supplies, groceries and rent and transportation fees, among other things -- to the tune of $148,000.

When the TIFF celebrities did not show up to a party apparently organized by Ms. Persaud but paid for by Mr. Daley, he suspected he'd been had.

Det.-Const. Jones said Ms. Persaud, who was charged in mid-November, has a history of fraud, and was before the courts on several other charges at the time.

Source: nationalpost.com

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...an unusual plea bargain in which her plea will be withdrawn if the child is resurrected.

Md. cult members face sentencing for child's death

BALTIMORE — Three cult members face sentencing in Baltimore for the death of a toddler starved for not saying "Amen" after meals.

The child's mother, 23-year-old Ria Ramkissoon, is already in a residential treatment program for young women as part of an unusual plea bargain in which her plea will be withdrawn if the child is resurrected.

Prosecutors say cult leader Queen Antoinette told the mother that denying food would cure her child's rebellious spirit. Antoinette, her daughter Trevia Williams and fellow cult member Marcus Cobbs face up to 60 years on second-degree murder and child abuse charges at sentencing.

Javon Thompson's body was found in a suitcase in Philadelphia in 2008, more than a year after his death in Baltimore.

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