Thousands of children in England It has been accused of charm over the past decade, according to new numbers that come along with a movie released on Monday.
The faith -based abuse is a global phenomenon, but experts have found 14,000 assessments in social work associated with magic since 2015. In the year that extends to March 2024 alone, there were 2,180 assessments linked to magic.
Statistics, collected by the National Center for Seven Own, come as a movie Kindoki Witch Boy It was released, and the story of the Mardoche YEmbi story, 33, who was accused of magic as a child who grew up in northern London and is exposed to the expulsion of evil spirits. The date of its launch also represents the twenty -fifth anniversary of the death Victoria ClimbiéShe was an eight -year -old girl who was tortured after magic accusations were against her.
YEMBI hopes that the new movie will encourage more of these children with closed doors for progress.
He said: “If a story like Kindoki Witch Boy was there when I was a child going through these experiences that I would feel alone. I want this film to turn something bad into something good, to help other children to pass the same thing. I hope the children who accuse you of that There is help there and they can survive.
Kindoki is one of the many words used to describe the type of magic YEMBI and Victoria along with terms like DJIN, Juju and Voodoo.
Victoria, who died on February 25, 2000, was brought to the United Kingdom by her great aunt, Mary Teres Coyo, where Victoria’s parents provided European education. But Victoria was killed, after suffering a long and extremist abuse, by Coyo and her partner Karl John Manning.
They said that she had evil spirits and was He was expelled By the priest and forced to sleep in a Bena bag in a frozen cold bathroom. At the time of her death, 128 separate injuries were found on her burning and abusive body, in one of the most horrific cases that doctors have seen in child abuse.
She was in contact with many health and social care services in the previous months. Manning and Kawo were imprisoned for killing in 2001. Her death repaired the child protection service.
Yimbi and Victoria were born just weeks away and lived a few miles from each other in northern London. YEMBI was sent to the United Kingdom at the age of eight by his father from his mother country in Democratic Republic of the Congo After the death of his mother, to take care of relatives.
Like many other children who face magic accusations, Yemen was a scapegoat to cause health and financial misfortunes in the lives of his relatives. Social services became concerned about him because his extended family said they wanted to send him to the Democratic Republic of the Congo because of the expulsion of evil spirits.
Unlike Victoria, he did not suffer from a physical abuse, but social services put him with a incubator mother who supported him over the next decade. It has flourished in its care and is now working to support young care graduates.
The film, directed by Benny Wolkuk, was filmed for nine days using a mixture of professional and non -professional actors. Jiria Kibusi plays the role of Yimbi and FATMATA B JALLOH plays herself as an incubator mother.
YEMBI and Victoria have never met, but he said that she was a lot in his mind while working in the movie.
He said: “Part of this film is dedicated to it. She had no opportunity to make it. I want to keep her name alive.”
