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'Sorceress' burned alive in Papua New Guinea

A young mother accused of sorcery was stripped naked, doused with petrol and burned alive in Papua New Guinea because she was allegedly a sorceress.

10:23AM GMT 07 Feb 2013
The woman, named by The National newspaper as Kepari Leniata, 20, was reportedly tortured with a branding iron and tied up, splashed with fuel and set alight on a pile of rubbish topped with car tyres.

According to the rival Post-Courier newspaper she was torched by villagers who claimed she killed a six-year-old boy through sorcery, with police outnumbered by onlookers and unable to intervene.

A fire truck that responded to the incident, which took place on Wednesday morning in Mount Hagen city in the Western Highlands, was also chased away.

According to the reports, which were accompanied by graphic front-page images of the woman's burning corpse, she admitted to killing the boy, who died after being admitted to hospital with stomach and chest pains on Tuesday.

Police said they were treating the torching as murder and preparing charges against those responsible.

There is a widespread belief in sorcery in the poverty-stricken Pacific nation where many people do not accept natural causes as an explanation for misfortune, illness, accidents or death.

In 1971, the country introduced a Sorcery Act to criminalise the practice. But PNG's law reform commission recently proposed to repeal it after a rise in attacks on people thought to practise black magic.

Local bishop David Piso said many innocent people had been killed.

"Sorcery and sorcery-related killings are growing and the government needs to come up with a law to stop such practice," Piso told The National.

Police arrested dozens of people last year linked to an alleged cannibal cult accused of killing at least seven people, eating their brains raw and making soup from their penises.

There have been several other cases of witchcraft and cannibalism in PNG in recent years, with a man reportedly found eating his screaming, newborn son during a sorcery initiation ceremony in 2011.

In 2009, a young woman was stripped naked, gagged and burnt alive at the stake, also in Mount Hagen, in what was said to be a sorcery-related crime.

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

kreator wrote:

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

People don't usually get burned alive for sorcery, so your point is null.

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

People don't usually get burned alive for sorcery, so your point is null.

Excellent point.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

People don't usually get burned alive for sorcery, so your point is null.

Excellent point.

If she had an AR-15, she'd be alive and unburned right now. And, she wouldn't have had to resort to sorcery to kill anybody. They need a PNG-NRA chapter over there for sure.

Terry B. wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

People don't usually get burned alive for sorcery, so your point is null.

Excellent point.

If she had an AR-15, she'd be alive and unburned right now. And, she wouldn't have had to resort to sorcery to kill anybody. They need a PNG-NRA chapter over there for sure.

Why would a witch carry a gun?

Witches and sorceresses are sort of the same, huh?

Why would a witch carry a gun?

Witches and sorceresses are sort of the same, huh?

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

People don't usually get burned alive for sorcery, so your point is null.

Excellent point.

If she had an AR-15, she'd be alive and unburned right now. And, she wouldn't have had to resort to sorcery to kill anybody. They need a PNG-NRA chapter over there for sure.

nafod wrote:

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:

Pinky wrote:

kreator wrote:

protobuilder wrote:

kreator wrote:How many females were as hot as she was when they died?

It's unclear from the article whether she died, or was just burned alive.

True, I jumped the shark on that one. In fact it did say she was 'burned alive' so hopefully slightly charred but still alive.

People usually don't say "burned alive" when the person lives.

People don't usually get burned alive for sorcery, so your point is null.

Excellent point.

If she had an AR-15, she'd be alive and unburned right now. And, she wouldn't have had to resort to sorcery to kill anybody. They need a PNG-NRA chapter over there for sure.

Could you imagine if she'd had a 30 round magazine stuck up the wazoo, the response when she "cooked off"?