Paraguay: woman accused of witchcraft burned alive

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Updated: Nov 05, 2014

ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) -- An indigenous woman has been burned alive in Paraguay after being accused of witchcraft.

Officials said Wednesday that members of the Mbya Guarani community tied 45-year-old Adolfina Ocampos to a wooden pole and shot arrows at her before they burned her alive.

Ocampos was sentenced to death last week by the community's chief in Tahehyi, a village some 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of the capital, Asuncion.

Local prosecutor Fany Aguilera has charged nine men in the village with first-degree murder, and they have already acknowledged killing the woman.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/27286556/paraguay-woman-accused-of-witchcraft-burned-alive

 

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[Webster]

*reads OP* ...there are no words here....

 

[Jazzy]

OMG, that poor woman. What a way to die.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Wow, seems the people of Paraguay are stuck in the 1800's.

RIP