{"id":3488,"date":"2013-10-13T06:22:48","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T06:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2013-10-12T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T20:32:57","slug":"teenage-girl-crucified-in-france-to-expel-demons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2013\/10\/13\/teenage-girl-crucified-in-france-to-expel-demons\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Girl Crucified In France &#8216;To Expel Demons&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Shocker. Absolute shocker. Such ignorance. As the Huffington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/10\/08\/teenage-girl-crucified-in-france_n_4064821.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A teenage girl in France narrowly survived a violent week-long crucifixion-style exorcism.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Teenage Girl Crucified \" src=\"http:\/\/i.huffpost.com\/gen\/1397585\/thumbs\/n-CRUCIFIX-BED-large.jpg?6\" width=\"260\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Police discovered the emaciated 19-year-old at a housing estate in Grigny, a southern Paris suburb, where she was allegedly bound to a mattress for a week in the position of Christ. AFP reports the girl was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gU5Dupeb0iQlVU2nJD1yp8w3YYrw?docId=cb52847e-5164-4bbf-a405-054df0be61ac\" target=\"_hplink\">found dehydrated<\/a>, in a state of shock and showed signs of having been beaten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Four former members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, including the victim\u2019s boyfriend, are accused of carrying out the week-long crucifixion of the Cameroonian teenager to expel \u2018her demons\u2019.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The church said it expelled the four accused members in 2010 and stressed that<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/articles\/512256\/20131008\/former-seventh-day-adventist-church-crucify-teenager.htm\" target=\"_hplink\">exorcism of this kind<\/a>\u00a0cannot be justified by any of its teachings, according to the International Business Times. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventist.org\/information\/statistics\/article\/go\/0\/seventh-day-adventist-world-church-statistics-2011\/\" target=\"_hplink\">Seventh-Day Adventist Church<\/a>\u00a0is a U.S.-based millennialist Protestant church with more than 17 million members worldwide, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">All four of the accused are facing charges of kidnapping and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/InstaBlog\/2013\/10\/08\/Teenage-Girl-Crucified-to-Expel-the-Demons\" target=\"_hplink\">acts of torture<\/a>\u00a0and barbarism, but have denied all acts of violence.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the accuser\u2019s boyfriend and alleged instigator, Eric Deron, had delusions of being a prophet on a divine mission.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to statements released by the accused, the exorcism was organized after the victim allegedly leapt on her boyfriend, Deron, whilst babbling incomprehensibly, which led him to believe she was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5gU5Dupeb0iQlVU2nJD1yp8w3YYrw?docId=cb52847e-5164-4bbf-a405-054df0be61ac\" target=\"_hplink\">possessed by the devil.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The victim, known only as Antoinette, testified in court that her captors kept her alive by feeding her minuscule portions of water and oil,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ninemsn.com.au\/world\/2013\/10\/08\/03\/12\/french-torture-trial-opens-over-exorcism\" target=\"_hplink\">NineMSN reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Court is expected to resume until Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shocker. Absolute shocker. Such ignorance. As the Huffington Post reports:<\/p>\n<p>A teenage girl in France narrowly survived a violent week-long crucifixion-style exorcism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[362],"tags":[1003,1005,1004],"class_list":["post-3488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-and-society","tag-crucifixion","tag-france","tag-seventh-day-adventists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}