Considering the adolescent boys' sweaty locker room 'humour' of some recent threads and a proliferation of predictable copy cat trivia surely a case, described as the worst instance of child abuse in the UK and which Judge David Paget, said had been so harrowing that the jurors were exempted from jury service for the rest of their lives, is worthy of some attention and is "relevant 'news' for us here" even if it was in the UK

Let's also not sidetrack the important issues with diversory semantics
"Witchcraft" is a term with over a dozen different meanings, some mutually exclusive What is obviously being referred to here is 'ndoki'
believed to be 'an evil form of witchcraft'.

Dr Richard Hoskins of King's College, London, UK is a consultant to the Metropolitan Police on religiously-motivated crime; in 2005 he testified at a trial of three adults charged with the physical abuse of a ten year old child. believed to be practicing an evil form of witchcraft.
The victim's aunt was from Angola where, according to Dr Hoskins

"...belief in 'ndoki' - the [Lingala] word for witchcraft - is widespread in West Africa and among some immigrant communities in London, fuelled by a massive growth in small fundamentalist Christian churches. The abusers in this case - who worshipped at such a church in Hackney - may have believed they were carrying out a form of exorcism, driving out evil spirits."
. "Children affected by what is known as "ndoki" are usually treated as suffering from an "external" affliction that could be dealt with by a curative medicine, without violence. However, the beliefs of some fundamentalist Christian sects in "internal" possession and the need to exorcise evil forces had mixed with traditional beliefs to create incidents in which children were beaten to be cured. "The exorcisms are usually confrontational, much more aggressive," Mr Hoskins said.

All of the accused were committed Fundamentalist Christians

One of the accused, Sita Kisanga, "said the girl was possessed by an evil spirit, known as kindoki. 'In our community, kindoki happens. It is killing people. It is doing bad things,' she said." Subsequently, when interviewed on the radio, Kisanga said that "Kindoki is something you have to be scared of because in our culture kindoki can kill you and destroy your life completely. Kindoki can make you barren. Sometimes kindoki can ruin you chances of staying in this country. The authorities will arrest you and deport you and kindoki can be part of it."

But this case was not unique
In 2000 in London, England, an eight-year-old Ivorian girl Victoria Adjo Climbié was also tortured and murdered by her relatives who believed she was similarly possessed

Antoine Lokongo, the editor of a Congolese newsletter, Congo Panorama, believes the growing violence in exorcisms is due to western influence.
Exorcisms in themselves were not a bad thing and part of Congolese culture and identity, he said.
"This is part of our identity, part of our culture but it's being exploited for economic reasons."
He said some of the churches set up by Congolese people in the UK were simply "money-making schemes".
Child exorcisms were becoming widespread with the growing population seeking refuge in the UK from war zones in Angola and Congo, he added.
This abc news report would appear to support these claims of Pentacostal influence and abuse of 'Christianity'

N.B. The reporting of the recent trial has, of course, been extensive and even the most superficial attention would inform that the victim was not ' retarded, crippled or mentally ill' in any form; both the victims sisters were only spared the same fate because they 'confessed' Neither was their any indication that alcohol had played any part in the tragedy