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Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Voodoo mom sentenced to 17 years in prison

 New York - A monster mom tried to soften her tale of setting a six-year-old daughter on fire in a voodoo ritual even as she pleaded guilty to the barbaric crime - but a Queens judge would have none of it as he coaxed the truth from her and then sentenced the woman to 17 years behind bars. Marie Lauradin, 29, pleaded guilty to assault last month for setting little Frantzcia Saintil on fire in a ritual called “Loa.” But in a pre-sentencing report she changed her story, saying she was merely “rubbing Frantzcia down with alcohol because she was sick with fever when a nearby candle fell and set her on fire.” “The only demonic presence this child had to worry about was her mother,” the judge said, lashing into her. Lauradin originally told police that she was cooking rice on the stove inside her Queens Village home and when she was moving the pot to a back burner as Frantzcia approached her from behind and hit her hand, causing her to spill the pot of boiling water. More

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