Teenager died from ‘suffocation’ in exorcism

• Royale wrote on 2011-10-01 04:46

  A teenage girl thought by her father to have been possessed by an ‘evil spirit’ died from suffocation during an exorcism, it has been reported.
  
  
  Tomomi Maishigi’s father and a monk performed a ‘waterfall service’ on the 13-year-old where she was allegedly bound to a chair by a belt and placed face-up underneath a water pump for five minutes at a Buddhist church in Kumamoto, south Japan.
  
  The pair - 56-year-old monk Kazuaki Kino****a and the girl's 50-year-old father Atsushi Maishigi - were arrested yesterday on charges of inflicting injury resulting in death.
  
  According to the Mainichi Daily News, her father held the girl down under the falling water while the monk chanted sutras in the early hours of 27 August.
  
  When the victim fell unconscious, they called an ambulance but she was later pronounced dead.
  
  Kumamoto Prefectural Police said the teenager died of suffocation and that she had undergone the ritual a hundred times before.
  
  Mr Maishigi reportedly claimed that his daughter was possessed and found the monk to perform the ritual to exorcise the demons so she could get better. But she resisted and became violent.
  
  “Our actions were aimed at exorcising evil spirits from her and were not physical abuse," the men were quoted as telling investigators.”
  
  Tomomi had suffered from mental and physical illness since she was a senior-grade primary school student, and had not attended school since April.
  
  A spokesperson for the Nakayamashingoshoshu's (a sect of Buddhism) main temple in Kiyama said: “The water rite is done to bring one's wishes to reality, but of course you cannot exorcise with it. We also do not instruct to bound the arms and legs when doing the ritual.”

  
  http://uk.news.yahoo.com/teenager-died-from-%E2%80%98suffocation%E2%80%99-in-exorcism.html
  
  
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• Jelly wrote on 2011-10-01 04:58
  Idiots these days.
• cupid wrote on 2011-10-01 05:37
  Stuff like this stuff happen these days? Well, I shouldn't be surprised then...
• Cynic wrote on 2011-10-01 09:43
  These sorts of things are taken very seriously in Japan, so I'm not surprised. They should have been far more careful however.
• Kingofrunes wrote on 2011-10-01 09:56
  If you're going to do exorcisms, call the Catholic church. They're the pyscho's who do all of this. Monks don't get into that sort of thing.
  
  That being said, the idea of an Exorcism is very dangerous and can harm the person a lot more than help them.
• Zid wrote on 2011-10-01 13:35

  Quote from Kingofrunes;604730:

  If you're going to do exorcisms, call the Catholic church. They're the pyscho's who do all of this. Monks don't get into that sort of thing.
  
  That being said, the idea of an Exorcism is very dangerous and can harm the person a lot more than help them.

  
  
  Exorcisms from one religion can expel a demon of another religion? O_o
  
  Poor girl.
• paladin wrote on 2011-10-02 11:52
  Why didnt they follow the rules
  The offical group said
  It does not excorise nor should you bind the person
  What a sad failuire
• Taycat wrote on 2011-10-02 12:10
  5 minutes...?
  
  A normal human can only hold their breath for like...up to a minute!
  
  Weren't they even thinking?
• Navy wrote on 2011-10-02 16:36
  "she resisted"
  yeah because she couldn't ****ing breath.
• Zeo wrote on 2011-10-02 16:40
  Hearing a type of news like this make me facepalm.
  
  People are so stupid nowadays. :U
• Phunkie wrote on 2011-10-02 16:43
  This is really sad and for a really stupid reason too.
  
  RIP.
• Kazuni wrote on 2011-10-02 16:43

  Quote from Mythical Detective Loki;606030:

  5 minutes...?
  
  A normal human can only hold their breath for like...up to a minute!
  
  Weren't they even thinking?

  
  
  An average human will die in 3 minutes without air.
• Taycat wrote on 2011-10-02 20:07

  Quote from Kazuni;606203:

  An average human will die in 3 minutes without air.

  
  
  I did not know that. All I knew was how long a person can hold their breath. I am pretty sure the three minutes comes from all the oxygen in your blood slowly dissipating?
• MareneCorp wrote on 2011-10-02 20:10
  There is a little bit of oxygen in water, hence H2O. But this story, facepalm.
• Chockeh wrote on 2011-10-02 20:16
  I feel sorry for her. I guess the father really did get rid of the evil spirit.