You move to Sweden from the Congo. You think your daughter is a witch. So… you run an exorcism. Makes perfect sense… maybe not.
The couple, from the Democratic Republic of Congo, “think their daughter is a witch and reject the accusation” of abuse, Daniel Larson, a prosecutor in the western Swedish town of Boraas, said on Friday.
The indictment is based on three alleged acts of abuse committed between February 2007 and February 2008.
The girl, who claims she is not the couple’s biological daughter though the parents say otherwise, was allegedly beaten unconscious and forced to drink a concoction made up of a cleaning product and her own urine, according to the charge sheet.
Holy hell, who comes up with these recipes?
Good news is, the girl was removed from the home and most recently revealed her story because she finally felt safe.
According to the online version of local daily Boraas Tidning, the parents had in 2008 applied for a social welfare cheque to be able to afford a trip to DR Congo to exorcise the girl. The aid was refused and she was shortly thereafter placed in foster care, though the alleged abuse was never investigated at the time.
