An evangelical Nicaraguan pastor and four followers have been sentenced to over 30 years for burning a woman to death in an alleged exorcism ritual.
Vilma Trujillo, 25, died in February after being tied up and thrown on a fire.
The group had denied killing her and said she was possessed by the devil.
“The suffering that Trujillo was subjected to is something no human being should go through,” said judge Alfredo Silva.
Pastor Juan Rocha, 23, plus his siblings Tomasa and Pedro Rocha, and Franklin Jarquin and Esneyda Orozco, were convicted of murder.

Pastor Juan Rocha [head in hands] and his four followers shown during trial in Managua, Nicaragua

Evangelical pastor Juan Rocha, 23, along with four disciples, was found guilty Tuesday of tying up mom-of-two Vilma Trujillo for nearly a week in February and denying her food and water at the El Cortezal chapel that Rocha ran.
They threw Trujillo naked into a burning pile of wood to drive the “demons” from her body. Family members eventually rescued her, but she died a week later from the severe burns.
Rocha and the four others – his brothers Tomasa Rocha and Pedro Rocha, and Franklin Jarquin and Esneyda Orozco — testified that they believed Trujillo was possessed but denied killing her.
They blamed the fatal act on divine revelation.