Random Real Exorcisms Gone Terrifyingly Wrong (15 items)

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  (#8) Zakieya L. Avery's Exorcism Of Her Children

  In 2014, a 28-year-old Maryland mother of four named Zakieya L. Avery stabbed her two youngest children - ages 1 and 2 - to death. The older children, ages 5 and 8, were wounded but survived. Another woman, 21-year-old Monifa Denise Sanford, was also charged in the murders.

  Police were alerted to the horrifying crime when a neighbor called and said they thought something weird was going on in the home. They later learned that Avery believed the devil was in her children, and she and Sanford had been trying to exorcise them.
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  (#10) The Exorcism Of Terrance Cottrell

  Eight-year-old Terrance Cottrell died during an exorcism at Faith Temple Church of the Apostolic Faith in Milwaukee in 2003. Terrance’s mother believed that the church could help cure her autistic son. She also believed he was being used as a vessel for communication by evil spirits.

  During one prayer session, the boy was wrapped in sheets. The boy suffocated and his death was ruled a homicide. The boy’s mother had only been attending the church for three months before her son’s death.
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  (#3) The Exorcism Of Israa Zourob

  A 17-year-old Palestinian girl named Israa Zourob died during an exorcism in 2014. Abu Khalil al-Zamili, the sheikh conducting the exorcism, forced her to drink a liter of water that had been mixed with salt in order to get the supposed demon to release her. Her mother, who watched her perish, said that he and the girl’s brother forced her to drink after she complained that the water was too salty.
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  (#11) The Exorcism Of A 2-Year-Old Boy

  A 2-year-old boy starved to death after his parents and church members they lived with refused to give him food for more than 20 days. They thought the boy was possessed and that fasting would cast the demon out. The family went to a church in Texas led by Araceli Meza and her husband. The couple ran the church out of their home.

  After the boy perished, Meza conducted a ceremony to bring the boy back to life, which was caught on video. A witness told authorities that she tried to give the boy food several times, but she was reprimanded by church pastors.
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  (#7) Eder Guzman-Rodriguez's Exorcism Of His Child

  In 2011, Eder Guzman-Rodriguez, of Virginia, beat his 2-year-old daughter, Jocelyn, to death while attempting to exorcize a demon he believed had entered her body. She was found beaten and strangled on a bed, and several religious books had been placed around her body.

  Before he murdered his daughter, he beat his wife to the point of blacking out so that she could not stop him. He was sentenced to 20 years and 11 months in prison.
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  (#12) Irene Mbithe's Exorcism Of Her Baby

  Irene Mbithe allegedly murdered her 6-month-old baby by cutting out his tongue and intestines in an exorcism attempt in Kenya in 2016. Mbithe claimed her horrifying actions were to free her son from demons, and neighbors said they heard her praying for several hours before the murder.

  In news broadcasts, Mbithe was pictured holding the baby’s body, wrapped up in a sheet, in her lap. The boy’s father was away at the time, and Mbithe and the child had been staying with Mbithe’s aunt.

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