TX - Boy, 2, in 'raising ceremony' starved to death, Balch Springs, 22 March 2015

shadowraiths said:

The church is called Nazareth Zurita. Here's another article with a video of their "raising" ceremony. (link)

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Police reports and interviews with witnesses describe a fearful, isolated environment in the house, which functioned as a church — Iglesia Internacional Jesus es el Rey...

As the 2-year-old grew thinner before he died, one woman who lived in the house asked the toddler’s mother “why she would allow... [him] to be this way,” she told police. She said the mother replied: “It was God’s will.”

To her believers, Meza’s powers were convincing.... “We all believed what she said was the truth,” said a church member who spoke in a brief phone interview on the condition of anonymity because she feared her children could be taken from her. “The [boy’s] parents were manipulated into doing what she said.”

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Five children, ages 1 to 13, from “several families” were moved from the home into foster care following Meza’s arrest, Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marissa Gonzales said Wednesday...

An arrest warrant affidavit named 42-year-old Daniel Meza, husband of Aracely Meza, as a suspect, along with the dead child’s parents, Liliana and Zenon Aparicio, who are 28 and 31, respectively...

A video obtained by the media of the resurrection ceremony shows Aracely Meza holding the lifeless boy in her arms as she pleads loudly into a microphone. Children look on.

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Aracely Meza held the child’s limp body in her arms as worshippers looked on. She spoke loudly into a microphone, chanting words in Spanish as she stroked the child’s hair and rubbed something on his forehead.

The scene captured in a video was a ceremony to resurrect the lifeless 2-year-old boy. He died after more than three weeks without food. Meza, a Dallas-area pastor and a self-proclaimed prophet, had claimed that God wanted the boy starved to get rid of demons inhabiting his body.

Now, three years later, Meza is set to spend the rest of her life in prison for Benjamin Aparicio’s starvation death.

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JusticeWillBeServed said:

Texas pastor gets 99 years in prison in death of child who was starved



https://www.dallasnews.com/news/cou...ler-death-exorcise-demon-gets-99-years-prison

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