France: Togolese Man Who Raped Three Teenage Girls During Voodoo Exorcism is Jailed for 14 Years

30th November: The uncle and mother of three teenage girls have been sentenced to 14 and 7 years in jail respectively, for raping and assaulting them in voodoo exorcism sessions. The man, a 28-year-old from Togo, claimed to have been ‘chasing out an evil spirit’ when he assaulted his niece and her two older sisters between 2010 and 2011. The victims’ mother, 41, was found guilty of complicity as she had even supplied the condoms used in the crime. Read more here.