Accused Witch Gives Birth in Tree

http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3194

From correspondents in Port Moresby

A PREGNANT woman in Papua http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1537 gave birth to her baby while struggling to free herself.

Nolan Yekum and her husband Paul were dragged from their house and hung from a tree by fellow tribesmen who accused them of sorcery after the couple’s neighbour suddenly died.

Their ordeal occurred in Kilip village near Banz in Western Highlands Province, http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1137’s newspaper The National reported today.

The woman and her baby girl, her third child, were doing well in Mt Hagen Hospital after two weeks in hiding, the report said. Her husband said men entered their house in the middle of the night with a rope and tied it round their necks, accusing them of sorcery over their neighbour’s death.

They were dragged outside and hung from a tree.  

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23277899-12335,00.html

2008-02-27