Parents of Missouri 4-year-old girl killed by neighbors trying to âremove demon plead not guilty Updated: 7:23 AM CST Dec 29, 2020 KMBC 9 News Staff Share Updated: 7:23 AM CST Dec 29, 2020
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Show Transcript ALL RIGHT. THANKS SO MUCH PETE 709 AND A SMALL MISSOURI COMMUNITY MOURNS THE LOSS OF A FOUR YEAR OLD TODDLER BEFORE PEOPLE ARE FACING CHARGE TO THIS CASE. NEIGHBORS IN BENTON COUNTY HONOR THE GIRLS MEMORY LAST NIGHT WITH THE VIGIL COURT DOCUMENTS SAY SHE WAS FOUND DEAD AT THE FAMILY HOME ON DECEMBER 20TH. SHE BEEN SEVERELY BEATEN AND DUNKED IN AN ICY POND IS PART OF WHAT APPEARED TO BE A RELIGIOUS TYPE EPISODE. JUST HOPE THAT IF ANYBODY HAS ANY INKLING THAT ANYTHING LIKE THAT IS GOING ON IN SOMEONEâS LIFE THAT THEY WOULD STEP IN AND TAKE THE RIGHT MEASURES CONTACT SOMEONE GET THEM HELP. MARY AND JAMES MAST HAVE BEEN CHARGED WITH FELONY CHI
Four-Year-Old Allegedly Killed by Neighbors Trying to Exorcise Demon
On 12/30/20 at 12:09 PM EST
A 4-year-old girl was allegedly killed by her neighbors who were trying to exorcise a demon from her body.
According to a press release from the Benton County Sheriff s Office in Missouri, the 4-year-old girl was found dead by her father at around 1 a.m. local time on December 20, and her father stated that his daughter had been beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank before being taken back into the residence.
According to KOLR News in Missouri, court documents showed that upon arriving at the scene on December 20, James Mast showed officers his daughter, who was wrapped in a pink blanket on the floor, with multiple bruises across her body. Investigators determined that the bruises appeared to be belt marks.
Parents of four-year-old Missouri girl beaten to death and plunged into icy pond by neighbors who tortured the family for days are charged with child endangerment
Mary Mast, 29, and James Mast, 28, were charged Thursday with child endangerment resulting in death and are jailed without bond
They are the parents of a four-year-old girl allegedly killed by their neighbors
Their other two children, a two-year-old son and infant, are in protective custody
The four-year-old girl was found dead at the family home on December 20
Authorities said she had been severely beaten and dunked in an icy pond as part of what appeared to be a religious-type episode to remove a demon
The parents of a 4-year-old Missouri girl allegedly killed by neighbours to remove a "demon" pleaded not guilty Monday to charges connected to the case.
James Mast - Courtesy Benton County Sheriff s Department
COLE CAMP, Mo. (KMIZ)
James and Mary Mast, the parents of a 4-year-old Missouri girl that neighbors allegedly killed, have both pleaded not guilty to charges in their court cases.
Mary Mast - Courtesy Benton County Sheriff s Department
Both of them entered their plea during a hearing Monday morning to charges of felony child endangerment resulting in death and felony child endangerment resulting in injuries.
Both of them are being held without bond.
The court has denied both of their requests to attend the girl s funeral.
According to the probable cause statement for the parents, James Mast told investigators that Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen repeatedly assaulted James Mast and his family for the past two weeks with a leather belt and wooden spoon. James Mast said he allowed it to happen because Ethan Mast and Kourtney Aumen allegedly threatened him by saying James Mast and his family would go to hell and Ethan and Kour