Kumamoto, Japan, where a woman died during an exorcism.
Reports said Rie Fukuda, aged 51, was pinned down and made to swallow a large volume of water in what detectives said was an "exorcism" carried out by her husband and two elderly women.
Kosai Fukuda, 52, an associate professor at a university in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, was arrested alongside Eiko Noda, 81, and Keiko Kitayama, 77, police told AFP Friday.
Noda has been performing exorcisms for money for about three decades, Nippon Television reported, citing unnamed sources in the local police.
Noda and Fukuda told police that the dead woman "had been receiving exorcism for several years".
No details were given on the religion of those allegedly involved.
Source: AFP
3 years? Sounds like central bank policy, if at first your policy doesn't work, try, try again. It's also a nice way to keep the money flowing in.. assuming this was done for monetary compensation of course.
That said,.... this sounds like water torture techniques or they might just be big fans of Harry Potter, especially that scene with harry 'encouraging' Dumbledore to keep swallowing the water.... Is this along the lines of "If you continue to drink it, they will go?" Or was it the resident critters within, that encouraged this practice, as torture seems right up their alley of expressing 'love'. It's amazing what people can be talked into... at least some of them... at some point in their life.