Nicaragua exorcism plant starved, beaten before killing: witnesses
The hearing of priest Juan Rocha, indicted of murdering a lady in a weeklong exorcism in February. PHOTO: AFP
MANAGUA: A Nicaraguan lady who was burnt to genocide in an exorcism that caused worldwide startle was carnivorous and beaten in a week before her killing, witnesses told a justice Wednesday.
Evangelical priest Juan Rocha and 4 supporters are indicted of murdering Vilma Trujillo, a 25-year-old mom of two, since they believed she was hexed by a devil.
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On a second day of their trial, that is being carried live on Nicaraguan television, Trujillo’s kin told a justice how Rocha had his supporters firm her, kick her, and refused her food, H2O and visitors.
“He told us not to feel any adore for her, since that was usually a devil, that she had to be burnt until usually her conduct was left,” a victim’s cousin Roberto Trujillo told a justice in a capital, Managua.
“They wouldn’t let me nearby her. Pastor Juan Rocha told us not to compensate any courtesy to her since she was hexed by a demon,” pronounced her sister Marlene, who told a justice of observant Trujillo tied to a hammock.
Trujillo was killed in a gruesome week-long sermon from Feb 15 to 21 in a removed encampment of El Cortezal in northeastern Nicaragua. Witnesses pronounced she was nude exposed and thrown on a raise of timber that was set alight.
Rocha has reportedly denied that version, observant a lady herself leaped during a glow and was dangling aloft by a assail suggestion in her. Trujillo’s father pronounced Rocha had banned him to see his daughter during a ritual.
When he and her cousin went to get her in a tiny chapel where she was kept, they found her exposed and horribly burnt after 5 hours over a fire, they said.
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Trujillo died of her browns in a Managua sanatorium on Feb 28.
Forensics consultant Ricardo Larios told a justice she had been subjected to temperatures of 400 degrees Celsius (752 Fahrenheit).
A priest compared with a Assemblies of God church, Rocha apparently binds outrageous lean in a tiny encampment where he preached. Residents have been demure to plead a case.
Rocha is indicted alongside dual brothers and dual other suspects. The hearing is set to resume on May 2.
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