The Harm

Psychic didn’t see arrest coming

Desperate to reunite with his former girlfriend, a man from Illinois decided to answer an ad for a psychic.

It was an ad found on the back pages of newspapers and magazines.

But after wiring the psychic thousands of dollars and waiting three months, the man said his former girlfriend never reappeared.

But the alleged victim in this case did call, and after a lengthy investigation by HPD’s Major Offenders Division, 40-year-old Michelle Evans. She was charged with felony theft and, officials say, she is no stranger to police nor 11 News.

You see, Evans, who works out of this store front off Louetta, was arrested for committing a similar crime in 1994.

Court records obtained by 11 News this time reveal that from June through August of last year, the alleged victim sent Evans more than $72,000.

Thanks to Amanda at Skepchick I bring you this.
In some Orthodox Jewish sects there is rise in eating disorders (anorexia and bulimia). One of the cause sis the men in these Orthodox Jewish sects prefer skinny woman but thats not why I bring it up, I bring it up cause of this.

“Very often, young men looking for brides in the Orthodox community call a girl’s parents and ask for her dress size.” If it’s over a size 8, says the Forward, she may be headed for spinster city.

Some men go so far to ask for the dress size of the mother of the prospective bride, says Abraham Twerski, author of a book about eating disorders called The Thin You Within You. (You know, so a future husband can rest assure his wife-to-be will be able to shed the baby weight - and there will be many babies: Orthodox Jews don’t always believe in birth control). The arranged marriages may be causing eating disorders for another reason as well: Orthodox women are encouraged to wed at a very young age, and some teens who are seeking to avoid marriage develop anorexia to avoid menstruation. No menses = no babies = no marriage.

As many experts note, eating disorders are often about control, and eating disorder specialist Dr. Ira Sacker told the Forward that Orthodox girls and women often want to control their food intake because in such a regimented and ritualized society, what they eat is the only thing they have any power over.

The woman do not have the right to choose who they marry, the men ask the weight of the woman and there mothers when asking permission to marry them and the only way for th woman to avoid marriage is to not have a minstrel cycle. All cause these people fallow an Orthodox ancient middle eastern desert religion that considers woman as nothing more than property used to manufacture children.

Girl’s death a botched exorcism?
A 4 year old girl was brought into a hospital dead, she had been severely beaten with a belt, a cane and hands and had cigarette burns.
The Neighbours say it was a botched exorcism but the police are calling it a murder after a post mortem that revealed she had been strangled.
The police have arrested the girls 25 year old mother and are looking for her live in boyfriend and there 2 month old daughters.
The grandparents were hoping to meet Cheah (the little girl) but the mother never showed up.
Her uncle, identified only as Cheah, was distraught and cried

Look at her body… look at her body… how could this happen,

Indeed. How could this happen?

Its only natural that the first post in this blogs would be the story that inspired me to start it.
Thanks to Amanda at Skepchick, I bring you this
A pregnant woman and her husband was hung for witchcraft, she then gives birth (2 months early) while being hung. Thankfully they managed to loosen the rope and get away. The 3 are now doing well (physically).
The 2 where accused of being involved in the death of a neighbour though witchcraft.

British tax payer money wasted on an exorsism

Council payed a psychic £60 to exorcise a house of ghosts.

Pleas for condemned Saudi ‘witch’
A illiterate Saudi woman has been sentenced to death for witchcraft. She was allegedly beaten and forced to sine a confection with a fingerprint.