In May 2009, CNN and CBS reported that an increasing number of children in Africa, specifically Nigeria, have been accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Many of the children who have survived these brutal “exorcisms” are being rehabilitated by local organizations.
To read more about this atrocity, please visit: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/05/18/nigeria.child.witchcraft/index.html