Sheriff: 4-year-old Missouri girl s killers sought to remove demon
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Ethan Mast, Kourtney Aumen (Credit: Benton County Sheriff s Office)
COLE CAMP, Mo. - A 4-year-old girl died after being dunked in an icy pond and beaten by two neighbors who claimed it was necessary to remove a demon, a Missouri sheriff said Tuesday.
Ethan Mast, 35, and Kourtney Aumen, 21, are charged with second-degree murder, sexual abuse and three counts of assault. Both are jailed without bond and don’t yet have attorneys, according to court records. Based on what I know, I think this could be some kind of honest-to-goodness religious-type episode, Benton County Sheriff Eric Knox said in a phone interview. The suspects and the victimized family belonged to the same church, but Knox declined to name the church or its denomination.
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A Missouri couple has been accused of fatally torturing their own neighbors, a mother and her two kids, and the killing of a little girl.
Early Sunday, James Mast, 28, of Cole Camp, Missouri called 911 to report that his 4-year-old daughter was dead, the Benton County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release. He said the child “had been beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank before being taken back into the residence.”
When investigators arrived on the scene, they found the girl dead in her bedroom, according to local outlet KY3.
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