Three guilty in 'witch' trial

[emad]

3 June 2005

Two women and a man were found guilty today of cruelty to a girl who was tortured and threatened with death for being a "witch".

The eight-year-old was cut with a knife, beaten with a belt and shoe and had chilli peppers rubbed in her eyes to beat the devil out of her.

And, in a final cruel twist, she was put into a zip-up laundry bag and told she would be "thrown away" into a river, the Old Bailey heard.

The orphan was beaten until she was made to admit she had been doing witchcraft and is still traumatised by the experience.

http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/19075046?source=PA&ct=5

[BR_Parkway]

1. Centuries after Salem, and we're no further ahead.

[pie]

3. I had not thought of it like that. Good observation.

[pie]

2. This is one of those rare death penalty exceptions

Regardless of the reasons behind what they did,
these people need to be put down.

[WeRQ4U]

4. Kind of off-topic...

But it's just another example of how the US torture of detainees provides nothing but bullshit. If you beat someone enough, they will admit to anything...even witchcraft. So sad.

[damntexdem]

5. It's a good thing she didn't live in the U.S. ...

she'd have been sent to Gitmo. And the perpetrators would have been appointed to high office and confirmed by the Senate.