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jsr

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Thu Apr 25, 2013, 11:38 PM Apr 2013

Chile arrests 4 accused of burning baby in rite

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Apr 25, 8:08 PM EDT
Chile arrests 4 accused of burning baby in rite

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Chilean police on Thursday arrested four people accused of burning a baby alive in a ritual because the leader of the sect believed that the end of the world was near and that the child was the antichrist.

The 3-day-old baby was taken to a hill in the town of Colliguay near the Chilean port of Valparaiso on Nov. 21 and was thrown into a bonfire. The baby's mother, 25-year-old Natalia Guerra, had allegedly approved the sacrifice and was among those arrested.

"The baby was naked. They strapped tape around her mouth to keep her from screaming. Then they placed her on a board. After calling on the spirits they threw her on the bonfire alive," said Miguel Ampuero, of the Police investigative Unit, Chile's equivalent of the FBI.

Authorities said the 12-member sect was formed in 2005 and was led by Ramon Gustavo Castillo Gaete, 36, who remains at large.
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Chile arrests 4 accused of burning baby in rite (Original Post) jsr Apr 2013 OP
I'm sorry I read this life long demo Apr 2013 #1
What a dark, horrid report! Lady Freedom Returns Apr 2013 #2
What kind of fucked up mental illness, and/or hallucinatory drugs do you need Quantess Apr 2013 #3
Chilean 'cult leader' Ramon Castillo found dead in Peru muriel_volestrangler May 2013 #4

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
2. What a dark, horrid report!
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:12 AM
Apr 2013
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
― Oscar Wilde

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
3. What kind of fucked up mental illness, and/or hallucinatory drugs do you need
Fri Apr 26, 2013, 01:21 AM
Apr 2013

to be convinced that a 3-day old baby is the antichrist?

How does this even happen in someone's mind?

muriel_volestrangler

(101,154 posts)
4. Chilean 'cult leader' Ramon Castillo found dead in Peru
Wed May 1, 2013, 07:44 PM
May 2013
Police in Peru say they have found the body of the alleged leader of a Chilean cult accused of burning a newborn baby alive last November.

Ramon Castillo Gaete, 35, had been on the run for more than two months. Police believe he killed himself.

His body was found in a house in the Peruvian city of Cusco and identified from fingerprints.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22377160


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