Religious ritual or abuse? Police investigate cuts on 4-year-old girl

GEORGIA
WSB

By Mike Petchenik

ROSWELL, Ga. —

Roswell police are investigating if lacerations on a 4-year-old girl’s chest are linked to a religious ritual or child abuse.

Last week, the director of Children’s First Learning on Elkins Road called police after finding the cuts on the child, a police report said.

The girl’s parents told police that the cuts were part of a religious ritual.

Channel 2’s Mike Petchenik went to the girl’s apartment off Greenhouse Drive and talked to a woman who said she actually witnessed the ritual that she contends is part of the Santeria religion.

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