{"id":7414,"date":"2004-04-25T21:50:15","date_gmt":"2004-04-25T21:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/more_from_toledo.html"},"modified":"2004-04-25T21:50:15","modified_gmt":"2004-04-25T21:50:15","slug":"more_from_toledo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/04\/more_from_toledo.html","title":{"rendered":"More from Toledo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, definitely strange.<\/a><\/p>\n

The woman whose allegations led to the reopening of the case testified before a church review board in June and wrote a detailed statement alleging years of abuse by priests during her childhood, The Blade of Toledo reported.<\/p>\n

The woman, now in her 40s, alleged that the clerics killed an infant and a 3-year-old child, performed an abortion on her and mutilated dogs, according to a copy of her statement obtained by The Blade. She described satanic ceremonies in which priests placed her in a coffin filled with cockroaches, forced her to ingest what she believed to be a human eyeball, and penetrated her with a snake “to consecrate these orifices to Satan.” <\/p>\n

Police said they could not substantiate any of the woman’s claims. <\/p>\n

The woman alleged Robinson was involved in her ritualistic abuse, said Claudia Vercelloti, who is a director of the Toledo office for Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests and has been in contact with the woman. <\/p>\n

Vercelloti said the woman did not know that Robinson had been a suspect in Pahl’s killing. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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