Three-year-old dies during 12-hour exorcism - Rest in Peace Arley Naomi
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🗓️ 22 March 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Arley Naomi Proctor-Hernandez was taken to a church on September 24, 2021. Her grandfather was pastor at the small California church, and family members met to assist in an exorcism.
Her mom believed she was possessed. The probable cause is difficult to read, and the determined cause of death is asphyxiation.
The week before Arley's mother, Claudia Hernandez-Santos, was arrested, Claudia started a YouTube channel and spoke to her viewers. It's chilling to listen.
The trio of family members stand before a judge this week in San Jose California, and according to reporters in the court room, Claudia swiveled in a chair and occasionally yawned while listening to Police testimony.
This episode was recorded just after the arrests were made in January 2022, and was only available on Patreon until today.
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| 0:00.0 | Nobody can come to me and try to talk down on me because of what happened in my past, you know, because like who I was before is not who I am today. |
| 0:12.0 | My past does not weigh me down. |
| 0:13.6 | You know what I mean? |
| 0:15.2 | What I've been through, you know, |
| 0:16.8 | because I've made many mistakes in my past. |
| 0:18.6 | Like, you guys don't know, like, I made so many mistakes in my past, |
| 0:22.2 | and, but I realize like you can't change your |
| 0:26.2 | past you know it is what it is who you just heard was Claudia Hernandez Santos on a |
| 0:32.0 | YouTube live just months after her three-year-old |
| 0:34.3 | daughter was killed and only a week before Claudia was arrested and charged in her |
| 0:38.6 | daughter's death. This week a preliminary hearing for Claudia continues in San Jose, California. |
| 0:45.0 | She is charged along with her brother Renee Hernandez Santos and her father Renee Hernandez for allegedly participating in the killing. |
| 0:53.0 | The crime occurred nearly three years ago. |
| 0:55.0 | According to the probable cause, Arley, Naomi, Proctor-Hernandez, |
| 0:59.0 | a three-year-old girl was taken to a church on September 24th 2021 after she woke in the middle |
| 1:06.4 | of the night screaming. Arley's grandfather was pastor of the small California |
| 1:10.9 | congregation and he met Claudia and Arley his daughter and |
| 1:14.4 | granddaughter along with his son Arley's uncle there to assist. They gathered in the |
| 1:19.7 | chapel to perform an exorcism. Claudia believed Arley was possessed and they laid the girl before an altar. |
| 1:27.0 | According to charging documents which are very difficult to read, |
| 1:30.0 | for nearly 12 hours they tortured the little girl until she died. And then they waited two hours before |
| 1:36.5 | calling 911. The determined cause of death is asphyxiation. Three months passed before Claudia Hernandez Santos was even arrested. |
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