SAN JOSE, Calif. (TCN) — Attorneys for a family charged with killing a 3-year-old during an exorcism are seeking to have the case thrown out under California’s 2020 Racial Justice Act. The act aims to correct bias in the criminal justice system.
On Sept. 24, 2021, Arely Naomi Proctor was killed on the altar of the Iglesia Evangelica Apostoles y Profetas church in San Jose, California, KRON reports. Firefighters who responded to the scene allege the child had been tortured for 12 hours.
A coroner determined the child died of mechanical asphyxia and smothering. Family members claimed they were trying to save her. The child’s mother, Claudia Elisa Hernandez, now 29, said Proctor was possessed by an evil demon and God had told the family he was going to take her from them…