Church emerges as nexus in San Jose kidnapping, exorcism death of 3-year-old girl
San Jose police searched the Iglesia Evangelica Apostoles y Profetas church twice over the last seven months kidnapping of a San Jose infant
Mothers of both children, as well as the grandmother of the kidnapped boy, attended the church, according to Santiago Garcia, 52, who owns the home the church operates out of, just south of downtown San Jose. “The grandpa told me they were praying and they think that by praying, the Holy Ghost will come and save her,” Garcia said. “The mom said she was trying to squeeze her body to bring her demons out. I can’t believe she said that. It’s very awful. Very, very awful.”
Hueso, Escobar said, “took an attitude of separating himself from his Brothers.” He called exorcism a “dark practice” that isn’t part of the church’s doctrine, and was shocked to learn that an exorcism was performed on a child in San Jose. The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office later ruled the death a homicide by means of asphyxia due to suffocation due to combined mechanical asphyxia and smothering.
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