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TexasTowelie

(111,301 posts)
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:12 AM Mar 2018

Pastor who starved toddler to death to exorcise demon gets 99 years in prison

Aracely Meza cradles the limp body of a 2-year-old boy, praying for God to bring the starved toddler back to life.

The moment was captured on videos that a Dallas County jury watched this week before finding the Balch Springs pastor guilty Friday of felony injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

The 52-year-old will serve 99 years in prison for Benjamin Aparicio's starvation death, one month before his third birthday. Jurors also ordered Meza to pay a $10,000 fine.

Videos captured the hours-long resurrection ceremony Meza led after Benjamin died on March 22, 2015. In the video, the boy is frail, nothing but skin and bones. His clothes hang from his lifeless body.

Weeks before his death, Meza had ordered that food be withheld from Benjamin for 21 days because she believed he was possessed by the "demon of manipulation."

Read more: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/courts/2018/03/23/pastor-starved-toddler-death-exorcise-demon-gets-99-years-prison

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Pastor who starved toddler to death to exorcise demon gets 99 years in prison (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2018 OP
Goddamnit. Glamrock Mar 2018 #1
I'm doing okay now. TexasTowelie Mar 2018 #2
Glad to hear it man, glad to hear it. Glamrock Mar 2018 #3
Amen safeinOhio Mar 2018 #4
Hopefully the parents got jail time too blueinredohio Mar 2018 #5

Glamrock

(11,781 posts)
1. Goddamnit.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:19 AM
Mar 2018

Sometimes I hate being part of the human race...
The pure abject ignorance, stupidity, and cruelty. Perhaps jail time will clue her in to exactly who was possessed....but I doubt it.

P's. You healed up yet brother Tex? Still worried after ya.....

TexasTowelie

(111,301 posts)
2. I'm doing okay now.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:30 AM
Mar 2018

There are a few minor twitches of pain in my thumb and I also keep banging the same area of the top of my hand repeatedly, but I've regained about 95% of the use of that hand. As long as I don't have to lift anything heavier than 12 ounces I should be fine. Thanks for asking.

Glamrock

(11,781 posts)
3. Glad to hear it man, glad to hear it.
Sat Mar 24, 2018, 03:35 AM
Mar 2018

And shit man, no thanks needed. We've gotten, ya know, relatively tight over the last year or so. So the concern is genuine.

And besides, who else keeps me as informed? I appreciate all you do man. Just so that you know.

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