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Minister Charged After Killing Boy In Attempt To Rid Him of “Evil Spirits”

HeadlineAug 27, 2003

A church minister in Milwaukee was charged yesterday with physical abuse of child and could face up to 10 years in prison after an eight-year-old autistic boy died while church leaders were trying to heal him at a storefront church. Police say the boy suffocated after a church elder sat on his chest while trying to remove “evil spirits” from him.

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