In Sri Lanka, a nine-year-old child is dead after her mother contracted a local exorcist to perform a violent ritual. (follow link for video account)
According to police spokesperson Ajith Rohana, the mother believed that an unidentified illness contracted by the child had demonic origins, and that the girl was possessed. She took the child to the exorcist’s home in Delgoda, a small town outside Colombo, where the exorcist (also a woman) performed a violent ritual to drive out the “evil spirit” within her:
No matter what religion, it gives idiots a platform to do evil things in the name of their god.