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From Cnn.com

Couple charged in possible exorcism death

Tuesday, January 20, 2004 Posted: 1:26 PM EST (1826 GMT)




ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A husband and wife have been charged with murdering a
6-year-old girl whose back was broken in what police said may have been an
exorcism gone wrong.

The couple was arrested Monday after being spotted on the street naked in the
freezing cold along with two other children.

Police said the dead girl, whose body was discovered in a motel room, had been
strangled and stabbed, and her back was broken. An autopsy was planned.

Based on what the adults told authorities, investigators believe "they were
involved possibly in a ritual of some sort," police spokesman John Quigley said.
"It may have had something to do with undemonizing the child in some manner."

Christopher Carey, 29, and Valerie Carey, 27, were charged with murder late
Monday, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on its Web site. They
initially were charged with cruelty to children, public indecency and
obstruction of police and were taken to a psychiatric ward. They were later
moved to a jail.

Police learned of the death around 12:30 a.m. when the unidentified man and
woman were seen walking naked down a city street with two children, a 2-year-old
boy and a 7-year-old girl, Quigley said.

The 7-year-old provided investigators with information that led them to the
motel, where they found the girl's body.

The two adults had apparently been living there for some time, possibly through
assistance from a church, Quigley said.


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