Boy murdered for being a witch Witch Hunts in the Modern day

I thought these days were long gone. Stories such as this reveal some people lack understanding, so sad. Spiritualism has a lot of work to do. I'm not sure if we will ever see the end of this kind of behaviour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16427840

I know Skye thanks for posting that it is so sad but then under Spiritualist in parts of Africa we see the scariest things.

What is worse is that they had attacked before
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16444602

Skye wrote:
I thought these days were long gone. Stories such as this reveal some people lack understanding, so sad. Spiritualism has a lot of work to do. I'm not sure if we will ever see the end of this kind of behaviour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16427840

A truly horrifying story.

With the UK being a multi-cultured society, I do wonder if it has something to do with foreign people's culture or traditions. Thank goodness Britain saw the error of her ways. I hope other countries do so in the near future.

This story goes on and it is clearly a cultural thing with reports I see out of vrious parts of Africa and even India
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-16641432

This gives a scary insight into the cultural issues
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/africa/nigeria/120117/nigerias-witch-children-find-refuge-at-center

Indeed this seems to be the type of organisation fostering issues like this.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2012/01/should-witch-hunter-helen-ukpabio-be-allowed-to-visit-america.html

This story from India show just how deeply held these views are

http://postnoon.com/2012/02/11/shalt-thou-not-suffer-a-witch-to-live/27654

We also have a recent book reviewing the epidemic of "witch" killings in Europe in the 15th, 16th and 17th Century
http://sawiggins.wordpress.com/2012/02/11/witch-crazy/

You know watching what goes on around teh world about witch craft is scary
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/241747-Nepal-Mob-Burns-Witch-Alive-in-Horrifying-Attack

http://www.bnltimes.com/index.php/component/content/article/361-op-ed/4485-should-malawi-criminalise-witchcraft

At least the couple who murdered the boy have been found guilty
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/couple-guilty-of-witch-murder/story-fn3dxity-1226286797473
However ther are more horror stories on the same day
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2108961/Barbaric-torture-83-children-branded-witches-Boy-beaten-exposes-crime-fuelled-medieval-beliefs.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

There's those who'd do the same and worse to us if they thought they could get away with it. We're all of us only ever a law change away from the martyr Helen Duncan's era.

Here is the Daily Telegraphs take on the cultural issue hitting the UK.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/9117340/Witchcraft-is-growing-threat-to-children-in-Britain-warn-police.html

These two stories show how scary this whole issue really is
http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/comments/helenukpabio20120212/
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/12211432.cms