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A Moroccan-Dutch woman is to appear in court, Thursday, in Rotterdam for abusing her 9-year-old son, she believed he is possessed by spirits, reports Dutch News quoting Volkskrant.
The mother, 39, is convinced that her son is possessed by a Djinn. According to the same source, the kid was placed in foster care in 2016. Speaking to Volkskrant, the woman’s lawyer indicated that the mother thought that she was healing her son.
«Abuse means you are hurting someone on purpose, and that is not the case here», Anis Boumanjal told the same source. Meanwhile, Jeroen ten Voorde, a criminal philosophy professor who assured that «abuse is abuse even if the mother was well intentioned», adding that «the exorcism of djinns using violence which causes pain of injury cannot be justified».
For the record, in 2016 an Islamic exorcist was sentenced to 10 years for killing an 18-year-old Muslim during an exorcism session.
