FORT PIERCE, Fla. – A Florida mom is dealing with a homicide cost after deputies stated she killed her 6-year-old son throughout an tried exorcism.
The boy, Ra’myl Pierre, had been lacking from a Fort Pierce elementary faculty for greater than two weeks earlier than his lifeless physique was present in his bed room.
“From what I perceive, this child simply lit the room up and was simply cherished by everyone and they also’re all going to be having a really troublesome time getting by way of this,” St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro stated.
Deputies arrested Rhonda Paulynice, 31, and a decide later denied her bond.
“She had plenty of highs and lows through the investigation, from laughing at totally different occasions on the scene to crying,” Del Toro stated. “We did be taught and talking with the mom, she believed she was being instructed by God to principally exorcize demons out of the kid’s physique.”
He added, “When the kid had stopped transferring and principally handed away, at that time, she felt the kid had been launched of these demons and was ready for him to principally come again.”
A deputy confirmed up on the house Friday after the varsity reported Ra’myl‘s absence.
“I’m devastated,” a neighbor stated. “I’m sick to my abdomen.”
Paulynice additionally faces expenses for failure to report a loss of life and altering the boy’s lifeless physique, pointing to proof that exhibits she was preserving it.
Authorities consider she killed Ra’myl on Could 18.
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