One mother suffocated her three-year-old daughter in an exorcist ritual and another killed her three children aged 8, 10 and 12 with the help of a teenager.

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The state of California is dismayed following the death of four Latino children, three of them brothers, ages 8, 10 and 12, at the hands of their parents for alleged demonic possession of minors.

small Arely Proctor Hernandez3 years old, an alleged . death due to suffocation in the middle of exorcismin which his mother attendedClaudia Hernández at a church in San Jose (Northern California), according to court documents cited by local media.

The minor died after his mother, his uncle and his grandfather He was subjected to “abuse” Last September, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Claudia Hernández, 25 years old and of Salvadoran descent, Took the girl to church believing there was a demon on her Because according to court documents, he would sometimes wake up in the night screaming or crying.

According to prosecutor Rebekah Wise, “the girl’s family believed the girl was possessed by a demon and was praying for her in church.”

According to the testimony collected by the police, three adults held the girl for about 12 hours, and Mother pressed his neck during the exorcism.

“I strangled her several times” to the point where the victim was rendered unconscious,” War wrote in documents cited by the Cron4 channel.

No one called the emergency service until at least two hours after his death.

The medical examiner’s office concluded that the cause of death was asphyxiation.

Hernandez is in custody, charged with felony assault on a child as a result of serious bodily injury.

Neither the grandfather, Ren Huejo, and the church leader, identified by the authorities as the uncle, have been charged.

That church was recently raided by San Jose police while officers were searching for Brandon Culler, a Hispanic child who was kidnapped while caring for his grandmother.

According to reports, Yesenia Guadalupe Ramírez, accused of kidnapping the girl, who was returned to her parents, is a member of that church.

She killed her three children on Mother’s Day.

In another case, happened in the past mother’s Day In Los Angeles County, 38-year-old Angela Flores has been charged with three counts The murder of his three sons because he believed they were “possessed by demons”.

Flores and an unidentified 16-year-old minor were arrested for the deaths of three of the woman’s children.

According to Los Angeles officials, Flores admitted to killing children with the help of a teenagerwho has not been publicly identified and is charged with murder.

The Los Angeles County coroner’s office identified the victims as 8-year-old Nathan Yews, 10-year-old Kevin Yews and 12-year-old Natalie Flores.