{"id":31261,"date":"2012-03-08T22:18:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_scotland_yard_says_witchcraft_abuse_a_hidden_crime\/"},"modified":"2012-03-08T22:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T22:18:57","slug":"rns_scotland_yard_says_witchcraft_abuse_a_hidden_crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31261","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Scotland Yard says witchcraft abuse a hidden crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British police say they have investigated more than 80 witchcraft-based child abuse cases in the last decade, and warned that the practice is &#8220;far more prevalent&#8221; than previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say the belief in witchcraft is widespread and growing in some African immigrant communities in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The disclosure came as a couple from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Magalie Bamu and Eric Bikubi, were sentenced to life in prison for torturing and drowning the woman&#8217;s 15-year-old brother, Kristy Bamu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/culture\/social-issues\/scotland-yard-says-witchcraft-abuse-a-hidden-crime\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British police say they have investigated more than 80 witchcraft-based child abuse cases in the last decade, and warned that the practice is &#8220;far more prevalent&#8221; than previously believed. Authorities say the belief in witchcraft is widespread and growing in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31261\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,199,114,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}