The warning was issued as a couple from the Democratic Republic of Congo were found guilty of murdering the woman’s 15-year-old brother during an “exorcism ceremonyâ€.
The Metropolitan Police yesterday said it had investigated 83 “faith-based†child abuse cases involving witchcraft in the past 10 years but believed it was still an “under-reported, hidden crimeâ€.
Children’s charities and campaigners urged communities to report abuse and said social workers must be firmer in confronting abuse in immigrant groups.
Kristy Bamu, 15, was relentlessly tortured and eventually drowned in a bath on Christmas Day 2010 by his sister, Magalie, and her partner, Eric Bikubi. The killers are facing life sentences.
They believed he had cast spells on another child and punished him with increasing viciousness. The teenager “begged to die†because he was in such pain after three days of being attacked with knives, sticks, metal bars and a hammer and chisel, suffering 130 separate injuries.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9117340/Witchcraft-is-growing-threat-to-children-in-Britain-warn-police.html
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