Man dies in struggle after choking granddaughter in ‘exorcism’

A THREE-YEAR-OLD girl is recovering in a hospital after her grandfather was found allegedly choking her during an exorcism.

The girl is expected to recover physically and police are investigating “other possible abuses”, said Sergeant Joel Tranter, a police spokesman in Phoenix, Arizona.

The grandfather died after what police described on Sunday as a struggle in a house where officers went in response to a report of an exorcism being conducted on a young child.