Police: 5-year-old girl burned in gruesome voodoo ritual to ‘rid her of a demon’; 2 charged
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Child Abuse
EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. (AP) — Two sisters tied down and burned a 5-year-old girl, permanently disfiguring her, in a voodoo ritual meant to rid her of a demon causing her to misbehave, police said. The women also threatened to cut off the head of the girl’s 8-year-old brother with a machete, authorities said. The boy …