http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/17/...

(AP) The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him - Mount Zion Lighthouse.

A month later, he died.

Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of "witch children" reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files.

Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."


Some wonder if this type of behavior will occur here if the fundies have their way. You know the ones who take literally the Bible. This is the danger when conservative fundamentalist run amok.
There is a Dark Side to the entire history of Christianity.

How does it ever get stopped? Who can bring these persons into reality? Who is going to protect the children?