On the five-year anniversary of the death of a British child killed during an attempted exorcism, BBC’s Newsnight broadcast an investigation of child exoricisms in African churches in England. Black church and community leaders, from organizations such as Africans Against Child Abuse (Afruca), have called for greater police action to protect children from the effects of exorcisms, and for those church leaders who believe in possession to be educated about child abuse. Researchers and community activists differ on the extent of the practice, with some sociologists claiming that it’s a “massive” and “sinister” problem, and others believing that the stories are exaggerated or a result of cultural misunderstandings.