33-year-old Daniel Corogeanu was reported to have had 23-year-old nun, Irina Cornici , bound, gagged, strapped to a cross and without food or water for five days at an isolated monastery in Romania.
Priest Crucifies Nun During Exorcism
A priest was jailed for 7 years for killing a nun after a failed exorcism ritual
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After the failed exorcism ritual, he was chased out of his village and forced to live in a remote forest hut.
Corogeanu, whose crime inspired a Cannes prize-winning film, was jailed for seven years in 2005 and vowed to build a monastery in her memory when he was released.
But when he arrived at the site of his proposed centre, the eastern commune of Zapodeni, furious villagers reportedly chased him into hiding.
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The priest who has since been excommunicated from the church told the court he did not mean to cause the nun's death.
Admitting to his crime he said:'I consider myself not guilty because Irina Conrici's death was not down to the fact that we kept her locked up.
'We tied her up because she kept hitting and harming herself and we would have found her dead in her room eventually.
'I admit I tied her up and stuck a towel in her mouth and kept her like this for five days.
'I admit that I used to cover her mouth with tape while she took part in daily mass, but only because I did not want her to disturb the service.
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Corogeanu was jailed in 2005 along with four other nuns who helped him with the ritual at the Tanacu monastery in eastern Romania.
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