Posted on 07/29/2004 5:38:30 PM PDT by wagglebee
A Ghanaian mother who claims her young son will be "sacrificed," handed over to fetish tribal priests and left vulnerable to abuse is fighting to remain in Canada. Lawyers for Evelyn Edna Baisie, 34, of North York, will file another appeal to the Federal Court of Canada next month in a last-ditch bid for her and her family to stay in Canada.
Baisie told the court this month she had to flee her homeland after an abusive husband threatened to have their then unborn son "sacrificed to fetish priests" in a religious tribal practice called Trokosi.
Trokosi is the practice where children, particularly girls, are offered to religious shrines as reparation for crimes committed by family members. Trokosi continues although it violates the Ghanaian constitution.
"The practice is still conducted by certain clans in Ghana," said Baisie's Toronto lawyer Ricardo Aguirre.
"The fetish priests are the village leaders," he said yesterday.
Immigration officials argued that Baisie and her sons are in no danger since "young female virgins are preferred for servitude to the priests as part of the Trokosi practice."
My best friend is from Ghana and this thing is true in certain parts of the country even though such witchcraft is illegal. But shurrrrrrrre send them back BUT BUT BUT muslim radicals come right on in!
"Immigration officials argued that Baisie and her sons are in no danger since "young female virgins are preferred for servitude to the priests as part of the Trokosi practice."
They seem to think that that's ok.
Wow, it made it all the way to post #1 before abortion was mentioned.
What could be wrong with that? PC rules say that's Multiculturalism, (cultural god of the moment), and we have to respect their cultural needs. Moving right along that line of thought, pink panties on killers' heads are much worse than being put through a shredder. Unbelievable, but that's the baseball bat the rest of the world has been beating us up with.
Political correctness is at it again.
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