{"id":1470223,"date":"2022-05-10T12:59:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470223"},"modified":"2022-05-10T12:59:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T16:59:46","slug":"a-3-year-old-died-after-an-attempted-exorcism-her-grandfather-says-he-performed-the-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-3-year-old-died-after-an-attempted-exorcism-her-grandfather-says-he-performed-the-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"A 3-Year-Old Died After An Attempted Exorcism. Her Grandfather Says He Performed The Ritual."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-3-year-old-died-after-an-attempted-exorcism-her-grandfather-says-he-performed-the-ritual%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1470223&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Church-Steeple-scaled-e1652199175981.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Last September, a small church in San Jose, California, performed a ritual on a 3-year-old girl to \u201cliberate her of her evil spirits.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the private ceremony involving <\/span><span>Arely Naomi Proctor and her<\/span><span> family members, she was <\/span><span>reportedly<\/span><span> held at her waist and neck in an attempt to get her to vomit the evil spirit out of her body.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Now, Proctor\u2019s grandfather, who is also the pastor of the church, has admitted to his part in the attempted exorcism. <\/span><span>\u201cIf you read the Bible, you\u2019ll see that Jesus casts away demons and made sick people healthy again,\u201d Pastor <\/span><span>Rene Huezo of <\/span><span>Iglesia Apostoles y Profetas said. \u201cIt\u2019s not when I want to do it, it\u2019s when God, in his will, wants to heal the person. The preacher is like an instrument of God; what we do is what God says.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ceremony allegedly went on for hours, resulting in severe injuries to the girl\u2019s eyes, face, neck, and chest. The injuries caused by the attempted exorcism would be too much as Proctor \u201cdied of asphyxia due to suffocation,\u201d according to the medical examiner, KTVU Fox 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/church-linked-to-san-jose-kidnapping-also-tied-to-apparent-exorcism-death-of-3-year-old-girl\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Court documents say <span>Proctor\u2019s mother Claudia Hernandez told police she believed her daughter was possessed by an evil spirit \u201cbecause the victim would wake up and scream or cry periodically.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hernandez has been arrested and charged with assault on a child resulting in death for allegedly withholding food from her daughter and squeezing her neck during the ritual ceremony, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nordot.app\/896589170988793856?c=592622757532812385\"><span>The Mercury News<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the ceremony, Huezo along with Proctor\u2019s uncle were allegedly holding her down, but neither have been charged with any crimes. <\/span><span>Huezo confessed that Proctor\u2019s death has caused him a lot of pain, but he trusts what happened was \u201cthe will of God.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[I]t\u2019s the stuff of God, and everything is in the will of God no matter how small or big,\u201d Huezo commented.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Court documents allege the victim\u2019s mother did not call 911 until up to two hours after Proctor\u2019s death, The Mercury News noted. Oscar Ayala, a preacher at the church who was not at the attempted exorcism, said the church members have a \u201cclean conscience.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe know we haven\u2019t done anything dark, and we know that we have a clean conscience, that we haven\u2019t done any harm, that we haven\u2019t provoked the death of the girl,\u201d Ayala said. \u201cAs I say, precautions and actions weren\u2019t taken to deal with that case. That was something natural that happened.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMaybe, I don\u2019t know, we didn\u2019t take the most logical approach, and we should\u2019ve taken precautions that should\u2019ve been taken to, like, take her to a hospital to make sure she\u2019s okay,\u201d Ayala continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Iglesia Apostoles y Profetas, which translated means apostles and prophets church, was also at the center of a child kidnapping investigation last month. The 3-month-old boy was allegedly kidnapped by two people who knew the child\u2019s mother from Iglesia Apostolos y Profetas. According to The Mercury News, \u201cchurch members said they knew nothing about [the kidnapping].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last September, a small church in San Jose, California, performed a ritual on a 3-year-old girl to \u201cliberate her of her evil spirits.\u201d\u00a0During the private ceremony involving Arely Naomi Proctor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":324,"featured_media":1482326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/324"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}