A mother in southern China has been handed a legal punishment after she accidentally killed her daughter while performing an “exorcism” ritual on her.
According to a recent report by Shenzhen Municipal People’s Procuratorate, a court in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, gave the mother, surnamed Li, a three-year jail term suspended for four years in July.
Li and her two daughters had been obsessed with superstitious practices that involved telepathy and medication.
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They had been constantly having the ideas that they were being attacked and possessed by demons and that their “souls were sold”.
In December last year, Li’s younger daughter, surnamed Xie, suddenly claimed that she was possessed by a demon and demanded that Li and her elder daughter, also surnamed Xie, perform an exorcism ritual on her.
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