African Child Tortured as Witch in Britain
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An accusation of witchcraft by Ms Kisanga's eight-year-old son began child B's ordeal. Patricia May, prosecuting, told the jury child B would have died if the ill-treatment had continued: "This ill-treatment started when Miss Kisanga's son one day accused the girl of witchcraft, of either trying to hurt him or his mother or other people to the extent of going out at night, using witchcraft to harm other people.
Refugee orphan 'tortured as witch'
The court heard that the girl's aunt and Kisanga put the child in the bag, zipped it up and were about to throw it into the New River in Hackney when Kisanga's brother, Sebastian Pinto, 33, stopped them, warning them that under British law they could end up in prison.