An incredibly disturbing story has emerged from Managua, Nicaragua. Five suspects have been arrested after a woman was rushed to the hospital with first degree burns over the majority of her body. As the Mirror explains, the suspects are her church pastor and four other members of the congregation, and they allegedly pushed the woman into a bonfire because they thought she was possessed.
Vilma Trujillo Garcia, 25, passed away from her massive injuries. Her grieving husband, Reynaldo Peralta, would explain to the police that the woman was stripped naked by members of the church and pushed into a bonfire. The church pastor, Rocha Romero, and four other suspects have been arrested, but Romero is singing a different tune.
"God told her he was going to remove that bad spirit from her and asked us to start a fire because that's where the spirit was going to be expelled. We were praying when we looked at her and saw she was on fire," he claims.
However, one of his accomplices had a different interpretation of what went down.
"God made a revelation to me. He told me to make a bonfire in the church patio and said we should take Vilma and tie up next to the flames and pray so that the devil left her sick body and threw itself on the fire," the man said.
The whole thing stemmed from the fact that the wife had allegedly been unfaithful to her husband. Rather than providing counseling, the church apparently determined there was no saving her. She leaves behind her husband and two young children. As for the alleged infidelity, the husband is now claiming that she was raped, and that he went to confront the man that attacked his wife.
"I went to confront the man I was told was responsible but had to leave him alone because he was carrying a rifle," Peralta said.