Police Say Theft of Body May Have Been For Religious Ritual

Stamford, Connecticut police are investigating the theft of a young girl's body yesterday from a Connecticut cemetery, saying they suspect some sort of ritualistic religious motivation. They say "a lot of things point to" that conclusion. AP reports that the body was that of a 2-year old girl who had lived much longer than expected in light of a condition that kept her brain from developing fully. Police say that followers of religions such as Palo Mayombe might have targeted this body-- buried in 2007-- in order to obtain the perceived mystic power that caused her to survive so long.