Nytimes_logo_1.gif (1794 bytes) @wehaitians.com  arrow.gif (824 bytes) No one writes to the tyrants  arrow.gif (824 bytes) HistoryHeads/Not Just Fade Away

News & Analysis This Month ... Only our journal brings you hours of fine reporting and research.
Correspond with us, including our executive editor, professor Yves A. Isidor, via electronic mail:
letters@wehaitians.com; by way of a telephone: 617-852-7672.
Want to send this page or a link to a friend? Click on mail at the top of this window.

click.gif (16361 bytes)To Advertise With Us Today

Energy & Environment

   MarketPlace

Wall Of Blood/Democracy

Special Reports

MORE  World Breaking News

Editorial/Op-Ed

Papa & Baby Doc Duvalier's victims

news_ana_1_logo.gif (12092 bytes)

journal.gif (11201 bytes)

Science & Technology This Month

video More World Breaking News

Wehaitians.com Library
Reference Search

Search for:

Sports This Month

video Magazine
 
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (O.E.C.D.)

bluebullet.gif (326 bytes)Must learnedly read, too; in part, of intellectual rigor


bluebullet.gif (326 bytes)Wehaitians.com, waiting for your invaluable financial assistance blue_sign_1.gif (84 bytes)Reference Search 

A SPECIAL SECTION: Haiti, Since the January 12, 2010 Fierce Earthquake
Professor Yves A. Isidor conveys his thoughts or opinion to the U.S. news media (partial)
 jeunehaiti1: A must read publication   music logoListen to deposed dictator Aristide's preferred song:  Kapitalis Se Peche Motel or Capitalism Is a Mortal Sin 
 ___________________________________
                        

Posted Friday, August 3, 2012

Four Haiti children die after being treated by witch doctor

Four children from the same family have been found dead in Haiti after being treated by a witch doctor who claimed to be able to cure them of a mysterious illness, an official has said.

The children – three boys and a girl ranging from seven to 15 months old, "suffered abuse from the healer who was treating them", according to Wilfrid Brisson, an official from the town of Marbial.

"They were then abandoned in their mother's bed," he said.

According to neighbours, the sorcerer – who was assisted by his brother – persuaded the victims' mother that the children were possessed by a demon and said he could rid their soul of the devil.

The witch doctor and his brother beat the children repeatedly, in steps they said were necessary to expel the demon, and the youngsters died from the blows, said Mr Brisson.

The alleged killers have apparently fled to the capital Port-au-Prince. An investigation by authorities in Marbial is under way and the children's mother is in custody.

© Copyright of Telegraph Media Group Limited 2012

Related
  • THE WAR OF RELIGION: More Than 100 Intellectuals, Writers Defend Voodoo god, Deposed Murderous Dictator Aristide Who Attempts To Curse Bush

Wehaitians.com, the scholarly journal of democracy and human rights
More from wehaitians.com
 Main / Columns / Books And Arts / Miscellaneous