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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Isabel Keane

Boy, 4, drowns after Amish mom threw him in lake ‘to give him to God’ – as his dad drowned testing his own faith

A 4-year-old Amish boy who was thrown into an Ohio lake to be “given” to God drowned alongside his father, who swam out deep into the water to test his own faith, according to authorities.

The deaths of 4-year-old Vincent Miller and his father, 45-year-old Marcus Miller, both of Millersburg, part of Ohio’s Amish Country, were preceded by a “spiritual delusion,” Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell said, according to Fox 8.

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