Prison terms for fatal exorcism
A Romanian priest who in 2005 led a days-long exorcism ritual for a young nun that ended with the woman’s death was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Maricica Irina Cornici, 23, had been chained to a cross and deprived of food and water.
Cornici believed that she heard the devil talking to her. She was treated for schizophrenia, but when she relapsed, Daniel Petru Corogeanu -- a monk who served as the priest for the secluded Holy Trinity convent -- and four other nuns tried exorcism.
One nun got eight years in prison and the other three got five years.
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