The Gold Coast Bulletin

Pastor jailed for boy’s death

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A FLORIDA pastor who investigat­ors say ordered that food be withheld from a toddler to rid him of a demon has been sentenced to 99 years in prison in the child’s 2015 starvation death.

The Dallas Morning News reports a jury convicted Aracely Meza of felony injury to a child causing serious bodily injury. Investigat­ors say Meza and the boy’s parents believed the two-year-old had a demon in him and that fasting would save him.

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