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Originally Posted by Catherine Moore

That is an excellent point. Why, in my home town alone there are two seperate places where prostitutes can get abortions but I don't think there's a single place where suspected witch children can be dropped off in the entire country.

A national chain of drop in advice centres where learned True Christians can clearly identify whether the child is possessed or not and then take appropriate steps would resolve all of these problems. Because, despite my fears about their church, it seems clear they wanted to do the right thing.

I think my influence in setting up these centres is going to be limited. My own MP is a known adulterer and was, as a child, blinded for some sin I'm not sure of (Isaiah 44:18) so I don't he think will be sympathetic if I write to him.

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Cletus Anaaya has made it his life's work to bring an end to the phenomenon known as Spirit Children.

Spirit Children are children who are considered by many people not to be human; they are thought to be evil spirits and their fate is decided by their parents, the soothsayers and the concoction men who often become their executioners.

Cletus works with a local charity called Afrikids and his job takes him all over this region to meet with soothsayers and concoction men to try to persuade them to stop killing children, but as Sorious discovers, it's a tough job; the tradition is deeply engrained in society.

Cletus takes Sorious to meet his old school master who teaches a class of 8 to 12-year-olds under a tree. When Sorious asks the class what should be done with Spirit Children most of class agrees that they should be killed.

All the people involved in the death of one three year old boy talk candidly to Sorious. The father describes how the child couldn't walk and he began to suspect that he was a Spirit Child. The father consulted the soothsayer who Sorious and Cletus meet.

Finally Sorious confronts the concoction man who killed the child. He tells Sorious that he had to give the child three doses of his concoction before he died. Sorious accuses him of murder but the concoction man says that since the child was not human what he did can not be murder.

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[Rev. M. Rodimer]

Originally Posted by Catherine Moore

That is an excellent point. Why, in my home town alone there are two seperate places where prostitutes can get abortions but I don't think there's a single place where suspected witch children can be dropped off in the entire country.

A national chain of drop in advice centres where learned True Christians can clearly identify whether the child is possessed or not and then take appropriate steps would resolve all of these problems. Because, despite my fears about their church, it seems clear they wanted to do the right thing.

I think my influence in setting up these centres is going to be limited. My own MP is a known adulterer and was, as a child, blinded for some sin I'm not sure of (Isaiah 44:18) so I don't he think will be sympathetic if I write to him.

Oh, I wouldn't be so sure about that . . . but you may have to try a slightly different mission statement.

Instead of, "A national chain of drop in advice centres where learned True Christians can clearly identify whether the child is possessed or not and then take appropriate steps", call it "A national chain of drop-off centres where parents unable to care for their children may leave them, no questions asked, to be cared for and have all their needs met by loving individuals."

Needs include, but are not limited to:

Food
Shelter (i.e., confinement)
Clothing (i.e., uniforms)
Education (i.e., Bible lessons)
Treatment of spiritual malaise (i.e., exorcism)
Assistance with gender identity issues (i.e., homo-reparative therapy)