Police investigate religious links after witchcraft abuse of child, 8
http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,2763,1499191,00.html
Vikram Dodd
Saturday June 4, 2005
The Guardian
Police and child protection experts are to investigate the extent of
child abuse linked to religious practices after three adults who
branded an eight-year-old child a witch and tortured her for months
were yesterday convicted of child cruelty offences.
The girl, known only as child B, was an orphan from war-ravaged Angola
and brought to Britain by her aunt who falsely claimed to be her
mother.
She was cut with a knife on her chest, had chilli peppers rubbed in her
eyes, was starved and repeatedly slapped, kicked and beaten. Yesterday
an Old Bailey jury convicted her aunt, who cannot be named for legal
reasons, Sita Kisanga, 35, and her brother Sebastian Pinto, 33, of
child cruelty charges.
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