This one takes the cake and PROVES Christians are INSANE!

Baby drowns during baptism

A priest in eastern Europe has been accused of drowning a baby boy as he baptised him

Police are investigating Father Valentin for accidential homicide after witnesses at the ceremony said the priest did not cover the baby's mouth during the ritual, The Sun newspaper reports.

Father Valentin had denied being responsible for the baby's death during the baptism in Moldova.

The six-week-old baby died on the way to hospital and an autopsy found he had drowned, the baby's dad Dumitru Gaidau told Romania's Publica TV.

Mr Gaidau, 36, said his son was clearly in distress during the ceremony.

"He couldn't inhale, his face turned blue and he was foaming at the mouth. He [the priest] said we should not interrupt this their ritual," he said.

"We couldn't believe it that he just put his hand over his belly and over the head and submerged him three times in the water."

Water was found in the baby's lungs.

The baby's godmother, Aliona Vacarciuc, said the baby had been crying as the priest submerged him in the water.

"We couldn't believe it but we thought the priest must know what he's doing, but he didn't. When we got him back there was nothing that could be done anymore," The Sun quoted her as saying.

When the baby's angry relatives confronted the priest, he told them he knew what he was doing and was experienced at baptisms, Ms Vacarciuc said.

If found guilty of accidental homicide, Father Valentin could spend three years in jail.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au

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UK priests abuse child 'witches'

Children are being branded witches by preachers in the UK who supposedly exorcize youngsters by beating, starving or even murdering them in the church.

Activists say children are increasingly facing horrific tortures that may even lead to their death -- as in the case of Victoria Climbié -- across the country only for accusations of being haunted.

According to Debbie Ariyo, founder of Africans Unite against Child Abuse (Afruca) the social disaster is "growing".

"We are seeing more of it. At the very least, we are talking about dozens of cases every year" Ariyo said.

Police have acknowledged that the scale of the crimes is much wider than it appears to be as people cover up their woes for fear of being stigmatized.

Jason Morgan, a detective with the Metropolitan Police's Project Violet which is a special child protection unit said "it is a hidden crime that is very difficult to measure. There may well be a large number of cases that never come to light [...] it is a national problem".

Police covert investigation of a number of churches has demonstrated certain priests carry out acts of "deliverance" for their clients from among their church audience and pocket large sums of money.

One of the victims has reported being sexually abused 21 times at the age of 18 as a guarantee that her family is freed from a curse that caused them problems with another woman saying her husband committed suicide after a London church pastor told him his wife and son were witches.

Bishop Joe Aldred, secretry of minority ethnic Christian affairs at Churches Together in England has criticized the current trend of giving license to people to establish their churches saying "at the moment you can set up a church anywhere, anytime".

He said "in the same way we wouldn't tolerate somebody setting themselves up as a lawyer or surgeon without proper training and regulation, we shouldn't expose the souls of people to anybody who happens to think they can set up a church".

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