Outchurched

18-year-old daughter with ripped shirt/bra and covered with olive oil.

It sounds like it should be a bad Halloween movie, but it’s three months too early.

An attorney for an Edgewater City Council member and her husband denied Saturday that they performed an exorcism on their daughter, who police said they found screaming and bruised at home last month.

Council member Debra Jean Rogers and her husband, Daniel, have not been charged in the case, but a state review is pending.

Their 18-year-old daughter Danielle Rogers, a Stetson University student who was at an undisclosed protected location Saturday, was covered with olive oil when police arrived at the family’s home June 27, according to a police report.

Danielle Rogers told police her father said the ritual was an effort to “get the demons out of her” and that her shirt and bra were ripped as she and her family struggled. Her family claimed Danielle Rogers tore off her own shirt and ripped her pants open in an effort to expose herself to her father, police wrote.

From the Orlando Sentinel

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