Suffer the children:
âSaving Africaâs Witch Childrenâ follows Gary Foxcroft, founder of the charity Stepping Stones Nigeria, as he travels the rural state of Akwa Ibom, rescuing children abused during horrific âexorcismsââsplashed with acid, buried alive, dipped in fireâor abandoned roadside, cast out of their villages because some itinerant preacher called them possessed. Their fellow villagers have often seen DVDs of âEnd of the Wicked,â Ms. Ukpabioâs bloody 1999 movie purporting to show how the devil captures childrenâs souls. And some have read her book âUnveiling the Mysteries of Witchcraft,â where she confidently writes that âif a child under the age of 2 screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.â ... In Nigeria, many preachers not only identify possessed children but charge dearly to perform exorcisms. To redeem their childrenâs soulsâand to keep the child from being killed or banished by neighborsâparents scrimp or borrow to pay the preacher....
Since âSaving Africaâs Witch Childrenâ was first shown in Britain, in 2008, Mr. Itaumaâs home state has adopted a law against accusing children of witchcraft. But Ms. Ukpabio went on the offensive by suing the state government, Mr. Foxcroft, Mr. Itauma and Leo Igwe, a Nigerian antisuperstition activist. In the lawsuit, Ms. Ukpabio alleges that the state law infringes on her freedom of religion. She seeks 2 billion naira (about $13 million) in damages, as well as âan order of perpetual injunction restraining the respondentsâ from interfering with or otherwise denouncing her churchâs âright to practice their religion and the Christian religious belief in the existence of God, Jesus Christ, Satan, sin, witchcraft, heaven and hellfire.â
In other words, in the name of religious freedom, Ms. Ukpabio seeks a gag order on anyone who disagrees with her.
This piece of shitâa "pentecostal preacher" directly responsible for the torture and the deaths of scores of innocent childrenâis currently in Houston, Texas, "leading a four-night revival for a local church."