Exorcist priest gets 14 years over death of young nun

A ROMANIAN priest who led a exorcism ritual for a young nun that ended with the woman’s death was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison.

Exorcist priest gets 14 years over death of young nun

Four nuns were also sentenced in the case.

The dead nun, Maricica Irina Cornici, believed she heard the devil talking to her. She was treated for schizophrenia, but when she relapsed, Daniel Petru Corogeanu — a 31-year-old monk who served as the priest for the secluded Holy Trinity convent in northeast Romania — and the four other nuns tried exorcism.

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