02-02-2014, 10:47 AM
Sadly, this one has a more tragic ending...
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Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, and Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28 - accused murderers of Avery's 1 year old and 2 year old children.
Two women who police say killed two children while performing what they thought was an exorcism have been held without bond as prosecutors in Maryland seek a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether they are mentally fit to stand trial.
Zakieya Avery, 28, and Monifa Sanford, 21, have told investigators that they believed evil spirits moved successively between the bodies of the children, aged one and two, and that an exorcism was needed to drive the demons out. The women also reported seeing the eyes of each of the children blackening.
After the attempted exorcism, they showered, cleaned up the scene and "prepared the children to see God".
The children's two older siblings, a five-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, were also found injured with stab wounds at the house in Germantown.
Avery is the mother of all four children. The girl remains in critical condition but the boy was being prepared for release from hospital on Tuesday afternoon. The two older children might have died too had a neighbour not called emergency services to the scene, police said.
Avery and Sanford appeared before a court via video conference on Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. The women identified themselves to investigators as members of a group known as the "demon assassins"...
Source:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/ja...o-children
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RIP Norrel and Zyanna Harris.
Hoping the older children survive, physically and emotionally.
Monifa Denise Sanford, 21, and Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28 - accused murderers of Avery's 1 year old and 2 year old children.
Two women who police say killed two children while performing what they thought was an exorcism have been held without bond as prosecutors in Maryland seek a psychiatric evaluation to determine whether they are mentally fit to stand trial.
Zakieya Avery, 28, and Monifa Sanford, 21, have told investigators that they believed evil spirits moved successively between the bodies of the children, aged one and two, and that an exorcism was needed to drive the demons out. The women also reported seeing the eyes of each of the children blackening.
After the attempted exorcism, they showered, cleaned up the scene and "prepared the children to see God".
The children's two older siblings, a five-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy, were also found injured with stab wounds at the house in Germantown.
Avery is the mother of all four children. The girl remains in critical condition but the boy was being prepared for release from hospital on Tuesday afternoon. The two older children might have died too had a neighbour not called emergency services to the scene, police said.
Avery and Sanford appeared before a court via video conference on Tuesday on charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder. The women identified themselves to investigators as members of a group known as the "demon assassins"...
Source:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/ja...o-children
RIP Norrel and Zyanna Harris.
Hoping the older children survive, physically and emotionally.