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  1. Mar 5, 2012 · Eric Bikubi, 28, and Magalie Bamu, aged 29, from Newham, east London, had denied killing Bamu's 15-year-old brother Kristy. Kristy drowned in a bath on Christmas Day in 2010, during torture to ...

    • Child Abuse

      Child abuse linked to belief in witchcraft is a growing...

    • Child Witch

      An "obsession" with witchcraft and sorcery led a couple to...

  2. Mar 1, 2012 · ITV London reporter Ronke Phillips travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo - the ancestral home of the Bamu family - to investigate beliefs in witchcraft which led to the murder of Kristy...

    • ‘Begged to Die’
    • ‘Obsessed’ with Witchcraft
    • An ‘under-reported’ Crime

    Over three days, Kristy was attacked with knives, sticks, metal bars and a hammer and chisel, at the hands of his sister and her husband. He was in such pain that he “begged to die” before being submerged under water in the bathroom. Kristy and his other siblings visited their sister Magalie and her husband over the Christmas holidays, leaving thei...

    Kelly Bamu, now 21, broke down in the court room as she recalled the sequence of events. “It was as if they were obsessed by witchcraft and then it became absolutely unbearable,” she said. “They asked if we were witches. I repeated again and again and again that we were not witches. “I did not know what was going on in their minds. They decided we ...

    Detective Superintendent Terry Sharpe said that the Metroplitan police had carried out extensive work to understand and tackle “belief-based child abuse”, which includes witchcraft and spirit possession. “However, this is a hidden and under-reported crime and therefore difficult to deal with in terms of protecting potential victims from harm,” he a...

  3. Kirsty Marianne Bentley (18 January 1983 – 31 December 1998) was a teenager living in Ashburton, New Zealand, who went missing while walking her family dog on the afternoon on 31 December 1998. After an extensive search lasting several weeks, her body was found in dense scrub approximately 40 km away.

  4. On October 18, 2022, Paul Flores was found guilty of the murder of Kristin Smart, and Ruben Flores was acquitted of 'accessory after the fact'. On March 10, 2023, Paul was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. The trial was held in Monterey County Superior Court in Salinas, California.

  5. Police discovered the body of Dee Dee five days after the murder, upon residents seeing alarming Facebook posts written by Gypsy-Rose Blanchard the day prior. Hours later, both Gypsy-Rose and Nicholas Godejohn were arrested in Godejohn's native Big Bend, Wisconsin, and both confessed to the murder.

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  7. Mar 19, 2024 · An Atlanta area judge handed out stiff sentences for a babysitter who beat a 2-year-old girl to death and her boyfriend who did nothing to stop it. Kirstie Flood and Jeffrey Meyers on Monday both plead guilty for their roles in the 2020 death of 2-year-old Fallon Fridley.

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