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| "SICKENING" |
Marie Lauradin sprayed her daughter Frantzcia with rum and then set her alight, permanently scarring her face and leaving life threatening burns over 25 per cent of her body for a ceremony led by Sylvenie Thessier in her New York apartment. She admitted to stripping the child naked and pouring an accelerant over her head and in a circle on the floor - a voodoo rite known as "loa."
Justice Richard Buchter told her: "The only demonic presence this child had to worry about was her mother. It's sickening to think of a mother committing such an unspeakable act of savagery."
