Every so often children are murdered by people who claim a child was possessed by a demonic force, or that the Devil told them to do it.  These so-called “Demonic Child Murders” are usually perpetrated by people who are either using drugs or have a history of mental illness.  It’s not a problem of Satan worshiping people sacrificing children to the Devil as has been insinuated by some of the hysterical moral panic to sweep through the nation in recent decades.  Either way, the result is the same.  Here are some stories of children murdered because of delusions about the Devil:

• Satan blamed for microwaved baby