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'Girl tortured over witchcraft claims'
By This is London
9 May 2005
An eight-year-old girl was tortured and was about to be killed after being accused of being a witch, the Old Bailey heard today.
The child had been placed in a laundry bag and was about to be thrown into a river to drown when one of her tormentors managed to stop the others, said Patricia May, prosecuting.
Her months of ill-treatment had started when another child told his mother that the girl had been using witchcraft against the family.
Child cruelty charges against three women and a man allege that that chilli peppers were rubbed into the girl's eyes, she was beaten with a belt, slapped, cut with a knife and starved.
The girl's 39-year-old aunt from north London, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies conspiracy to murder and charges of child cruelty.
Sita Kisanga, 35, of Hackney, east London, denies conspiracy to murder and child cruelty charges.
Her brother, Sebastian Pinto, 33, and his girlfriend Kiwonde Kiese, 21, both of Stoke Newington, north London, deny aiding and abetting child cruelty between August 2002 and November 2003.
By This is London
9 May 2005
An eight-year-old girl was tortured and was about to be killed after being accused of being a witch, the Old Bailey heard today.
The child had been placed in a laundry bag and was about to be thrown into a river to drown when one of her tormentors managed to stop the others, said Patricia May, prosecuting.
Her months of ill-treatment had started when another child told his mother that the girl had been using witchcraft against the family.
Child cruelty charges against three women and a man allege that that chilli peppers were rubbed into the girl's eyes, she was beaten with a belt, slapped, cut with a knife and starved.
The girl's 39-year-old aunt from north London, who cannot be named for legal reasons, denies conspiracy to murder and charges of child cruelty.
Sita Kisanga, 35, of Hackney, east London, denies conspiracy to murder and child cruelty charges.
Her brother, Sebastian Pinto, 33, and his girlfriend Kiwonde Kiese, 21, both of Stoke Newington, north London, deny aiding and abetting child cruelty between August 2002 and November 2003.
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