When they abuse the children.

There are many stories about the childwitches in Africa, I think it is sad to read the details about what the children have been through. The major part of the children have wounds or are mentally damaged and they would need a lot of help and love to recover and get normal again.

I think a child is an easy victim of brainwashing, because they do not know any better. When the entire community and people at home and at church are blaming a child for causing death, the child will believe it and feel guilty.
These stories tell about the reality around the world.
Here are some stories I found from different articles on the Internet:

 Nwanaokwo Edet, 9 years old

A little boy lay on a bloodstained hospital-sheet where ants where crawling, the boy was just staring blindly at the wall. The pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled and burned away his face and eyes. The little and skinny boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him — Mount Zion Lighthouse.

A month later, he died.

Abigail Eyekang, 8 years old

A “prophet” from the Apostolic Church accused Abigail, because she liked to sleep outside on hot nights – she might fly away and join a witch meeting or something.

Series of exorcisms cost the mother, Margaret Eyekang, 8 months wages, or US$ 270. The payments ruined the mother.
The prophet and the neighbors attacked Abigail. They beaded her with sticks and Abigail was left alone and had to sleep in the streets.

Jane

There is a scar above Jane's shy smile: her mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and repeated exorcisms costing a total of $60 did not cure her of witchcraft.

Michael

Michael was found by a farmer clearing a ditch, starving and unable to stand on legs that had been flogged raw.

Rachel, 12 years old

Rachel dreamed of being a banker but was instead chained up by her pastor, starved and beaten with sticks repeatedly. Her dear uncle paid the priest $60 for the exorcism.

Mary, 15 years old

Mary is just beginning to think about boys and how they will look at the scar tissue on her face caused when her mother doused her in caustic soda.

Israel, Nwaekwa and Jerry

Israel's cousin tried to bury him alive.

Nwaekwa's father drove a nail through her head.

All knees, elbows and teeth, was beaten on Jerry by his pastor, they starved him and made him eat cement. His own father then set Jerry on fire, as the pastor's wife cheered it on.