KARACHI, Pakistan — Pakistani police have arrested a couple on charges of stabbing their 3-month-old baby to death in a black magic ritual they believed would get them rich.
Police officer Hazoor Bukhsh says officers recovered a 3-year-old girl who they feared was also going to be killed.
The couple was arrested Monday in a house in the city of Karachi.
The body of their baby girl was exhumed from their backyard.
Bukhsh says a witch doctor advised them to kill the girl after telling them it would make them rich.
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Economic hardship in this area is so great, that parents are willing to sacrifice their own child in order that they might escape their situation of poverty.
Superstition continues to be a dangerous influence on modern culture, and appeals for life-changing miracles will continue to become more extreme as pressures upon them build. This act of child sacrifice is the penultimate gesture of increasingly desperate devotion to supernatural forces.
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