An Asian housemaid working in Saudi Arabia was arrested earlier this month after the family she was working for accused her of causing the death of their child and had been using “magic” to destroy the family. The country's religious police arrested the woman, unnamed, in the central town of al-Artawiyah after the family accused her of causing an 8-year-old girl of paralysis and the younger daughter of being killed by the woman's “magic spells.” The father told the members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice that they found paper and nails in the hair of some family members and were told by mosque preachers they were magic spells. “The maid confessed that she was involved in magic work at the family … she was arrested and taken to prison,” the Okaz daily newspaper reported. If the woman is convicted of sorcery, she could face public execution. Last year, a Saudi woman was convicted of sorcery and executed by sword. Also last year, a Sudanese man was also charged with sorcery and executed in the ultra-conservative Gulf country. BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/T5Fb5 Tags: Maid, Sorcery, Witch Section: Latest News, Saudi Arabia
