Posted on 08/31/2004 7:51:18 AM PDT by hoosierboy
(WSBT) Two teenage girls from Knox are dead and police say witchcraft was involved. Investigators say thirteen-year-olds Sarah Casey and Debra Jean Kawaguchi stepped in front of a train Saturday near County Roads 800 East and 200 South.
Starke County Police say the girls took their lives because they thought they would be reincarnated. Now, police say they're investigating just how deep this cult goes in the community, and they're asking outside experts for help.
Investigators say Casey and Kawaguchi got involved in WICCA, a form of withcraft, and the girls believed by committing suicide they would be reincarnated.
"We are going to talk to students to see if they know anything and to see if anybody else if involved," says Starke County Sheriff Bob Sims.
Friends of the victims at Knox Middle School say they know of other students who have also participated in what is sometimes called a religion.
"In school, I just had a girl tell me that she practiced witchcraft with them," says classmate Darienne Griffith.
Police are now looking for answers into a practice they didn't know even existed in their community.
WICCA is said to have a deep respect of nature and spirituality, but apparently doesn't condone suicide.
Wicca does not advocate sucide at all. To say it does, shows someone's ignorance of the religion. Pointing to someone's religion is merely a distraction as to the real reason why someone committs suicide.
I am glad they didn't have any kids. Survival of the fitest!!
what a terrible thing to say
Just a Sign of the Times:
Witchcraft, Scientology, Radical ISLAM, New Age trendy religions, Homosexual views on Creation...They have one thing in common..All there paths lead to eternal death....
That may be true but WHY would a young person committ suicide? I hear people call up Hank Hanegraaff asking if a christian committs suicide will they go to heaven. It's ridiculous. Nowhere in this article is ANYTHING about the lives of these students.
One can only hope they are smarter in their next incarnation.
the girls believed by committing suicide they would be reincarnated.
Well, I hope they’re a couple of happy fish by now.
Wicca may not, as a matter of doctrine, but many of the more malevolent entities that one can contact through Wiccan practices do.
Let's not jump to conclusions about what motivated this -- the press loves lurid stories, but we know their reporting is often pretty poor.
> That may be true but WHY would a young person committ suicide?
Because they're teenagers? Teens do dumbass things. And there is almost certainly far more to this story.
Any religion with no canon of dogme is vulnerable to whatever nonsense that arises in some adherent's fevered dreams.
Yet another compassionate conservative chimes in, they were only 13 for pete's sake.
I for one will say a prayer from their families.
dogma. dogma.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5: 19-21)
What's the difference between a wiccan committing suicide and a christian teen committing suicide? Christian teens aren't contacting malevolent spirits.
> Wicca does not advocate sucide at all.
Oh, come now. Next you'll be saying that just because the Jonestowners and Branch Davidians did themselves in, that doesn't mean that Christianity isn't to blame...
You mean like plowing a couple of jetliners into the World Trade Center?
The umbrella religous organization at Cornell University has created a Wicca chaplaincy, but voted down the right of hassidic Jews to have a chaplaincy.
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