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Priest Probed by Cops After Six-Week-Old Baby Dies During Baptism at Church When Head Submerged Under Water Three Times (Details below)
A PRIEST is being probed following the death of a baby which had its head plunged underwater three times during a baptism.
The six-week-old child’s lungs filled up with water before it suffered cardiac arrest on Monday, an autopsy revealed.
A baby has its head submerged in water during a baptism in Romania.
The baby was rushed to hospital but died a few hours later following the incident in Suceava, north east Romania.
Prosecutors in the country have launched a manslaughter probe and the Orthodox Church is facing pressure to change its baptism rituals.
Babies are submerged in water three times during Romanian Orthodox church baptisms – although the priest is meant to hold their nose to stop them from breathing in water.
An online petition calling for church bosses to scrap the ritual had nearly 60,000 signatures last night.
“This risk must be ruled out for the joy of baptism to triumph.”
Vasile Banescu, a spokesman for the church, suggested water is poured or sprinkled over the child’s head in the future – rather than a full immersion.
However, Archbishop Teodosie, leader of the Church’s conservative wing, has insisted the baptism ritual will not change.
Over 80 per cent of people in Romania are Orthodox and the church’s baptisms are big events comparable to weddings, reports say.
In October, a shocked mother watched as a priest violently plunged her screaming baby into water during a baptism.
Footage shows the priest dunking the infant repeatedly and forcefully into the baptismal font in Limassol, Cyprus.
The man holds on to the baby awkwardly by the arm and lifts it high above his head before violently submerging the youngster underwater.
Mum Ntina Shitta took to Facebook following the ceremony and uploaded the disturbing video.
“Today I baptized my baby!! See this ‘father’ how he hits the baby … The baby of course was all red all over it body and in shock!!” she wrote.
Mum’s horror as priest violently plunges screaming baby into water in shocking baptism
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