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To: Patricia Trinchero who wrote (3060)	3/15/2002 10:12:36 PM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Here's our latest horrific example of such, fm the case of a beautiful little girl who was basically tortured to death... news.bbc.co.uk (quotes from links from the above) Description of the social worker assigned to rotect and watch the welfare of the child: Throughout 1999 Ms Baptiste, a born-again Christian, had also become involved with a "charismatic church" called Rhema ministry. It believes in aggressive prayer and spiritual warfare to help provide a base for Bible teaching, reinforcing practical Christian living. This coincided with her declaring she had been baptised and discussing her religious beliefs and experiences with colleagues at work. and the aunt and her boyfriend who actually killed the girl... Manning, a bus driver, believed she was Satan and beat Anna with weapons including a bicycle chain and hammer. He confessed to police: "You could beat her and she would not cry at all. She could take the beatings and pain like anything." ... A church service to "cast out the devil" was planned for Anna on the day she died. or From then on, Kouao kept Anna away from hospitals turning instead to churches. Kouao, claiming to be Anna's mother, said the child had demons inside her which were making her incontinent. One of the places she went was the Mission Ensemble de Christ in south London. Pastor Pascal Orome says they offered prayers for the child to cast out the devil. Now he says he understands the role that Kouao was playing. "Anna was used by another force, another demonic force. It cannot be her but maybe the mother, who was using her... She doesn't behave like an eight-year-old, she behaves like a 40-year-old person." This is not religion: it is blind, primitive superstition, and then taken to extremes. But the story of the pastor planning to 'cure' an extreme case of child abuse by an exorcim... that is so worrying, and so heartless...