by biaothanatoi » Mon Dec 12, 2005 12:55 am
It's old but I'm posting it because a. the couple were sacrificing their own children, b. the bodies were found, c. the births weren't registered and d. it relates to non-Christian/Satanic ritual abuse. <br><br>--<br><br>(CNN) PORT OF SPAIN, (Dec. 5) IPS - Police unearthed the remains of three children in shallow graves this week after a couple had been charged with the murder of an 18-year old female relative as part of an apparent religious ritual."<br><br>Kenrick Lunden, 35, and his wife, Chandroutie, 22, were arrested last week on a charge of strangling Chandroutie's sister, Meena Sookdeo, who had been missing for a week. <br><br>Police say the couple had kidnapped Meena near her home in Esperanza, California, Central Trinidad, and took her to a nearby cane field, where her body was later found covered with cigarette burns. She had been tortured and then strangled. <br><br>Further intensive interrogation of the couple revealed that more killings had taken place. <br><br>The couple led the police to the graves at the back of their small wooden hut in Central Trinidad where the bodies of three of their four children, ranging in age from three years to three months were discovered. The fourth child is still unaccounted for. <br><br>None of the children had been registered at birth and there was no evidence they had ever existed. Neighbors in the quiet, agricultural village at Caratal Road, Gasparillo, were horrified by the discovery. <br><br>Chandroutie told police she had killed the children as an act of worship to the Hindu goddess Kali, as they believe that by making human sacrifices to the goddess they would become wealthy. <br><br>Her husband is described as a "weird" man who dabbled in witchcraft and made late night visits in the nude to a cemetery in Central Trinidad. <br><br>A search of the couple's house this week revealed a number of books on the occult, newspaper clippings of naked women, jars of different chemicals, and colored candles. <br><br>Assistant Commissioner of Police, John Grant, intimated that the killings stemmed from "some type of cultism" but said that more investigations needed to be done to answer why. <br><br>Leaders of the largest Hindu organization in the country -- the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS) -- have denied that Hinduism has anything to do with human sacrifice. <br><br>Hindus make up the second largest religious group in Trinidad and Tobago after Roman Catholics. The SDMS has a following of just under 110,000. <br><br>Worshipers of Kali, a Hindu deity said to be the feminine manifestation of God, claim they are vegetarians and do not engage in blood sacrifices. Kali is represented with swords and knives as the destroyer of evil. <br><br>SDMS General Secretary Satnarayan Maharaj says Hindu sacrifices include flowers, fruits, and vegetables. <br><br>"We do not believe in animal sacrifice and we do not believe in human sacrifice...extremists and fundamentalists, once they perform evil acts, they try to cover these evil acts under the name of religion...it happens in every religion. It happens in every continent of the world." <br><br>But Steve Rampersad, Spiritual Leader of the Maha Kali Shakti Temple, in Gasparillo, confirmed that he had heard of children being abducted and sacrificed at sea. He says that in the Hindu faith, "such sacrifices were unholy and performed only for evil gains." <br><br>While leaders of the local Hindu community disassociated themselves from the alleged ritual killings, a social psychologist at the University of the West Indies, Ramesh Deosaran, says human and animal sacrifice exists in the region. <br><br>"The practice of sacrifice, human and even animal sacrifice, has been a long standing ritual and part of cultism in Caribbean folklore for many years now, starting from Haiti right down to Guyana," he says. <br><br>One 40-year-old Hindu who did not want his name explained that in his religion, the sacrifice of chickens, goats, and pigs is common place during Kali Puja, a special time of prayer and worship -- but "the worst is human sacrifice...when only family members participate." <br><br>Several persons who have lived in Hindu communities have told stories of the raising of black flags at the time of Kali Puja and of vagrants being fed and later sacrificed or family members being sacrificed by way of vehicular accidents <br>so as not to arouse suspicion. <br><br>They say a blood sacrifice is mandatory in order to maintain wealth. <br><br>Meanwhile, describing the killings as "an atrocious thing," Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, also a Hindu, says crime is taking on a new dimension: "Disintegration of the family to the point of death." <br><br>While investigations continue into the brutal killings, police files reveal that Kenrick Lunden had jumped bail several years ago on a charge of attempted rape and that he had been in jail some time before for robbery. <br><br>The couple's courtship began when Chandroutie was 17 and Kenrick had been hired to cut the grass around the family's home. In order to gain the family's favor, he described himself as a "spiritual healer" and claimed he had a message from Chandroutie's dead father that he should marry her or the family would all die. <br><br>With tears in her eyes, Dhanwatee Sookdeo, Chandroutie's mother, spoke of her daughter eloping with Kenrick. She told of how he had taken a lock of her daughter's hair, knotted it and thrown it in the sea. She says he controlled her daughter. <br><br>On the other hand, Kenrick's father spoke of a child gone "bad" after falling and hitting his head. "He told me he could turn into a lion or a tiger," said Cecil Lunden, 64, an electrician at Caroni Ltd. sugar factory in Central Trinidad. <br><br>While the couple has been charged for murder in the death of Meena, the case involving the children will be heard on Dec. 12. <p></p><i></i>
