Woman Injured in Folk Healer Visit
22 Jan 2002
Woman Injured in Folk Healer Visit
.c The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) - During a ceremony intended to help a 20-year-old
woman win back her ex-boyfriend, a folk healer apparently started a fire that
left the woman with second- and third-degree burns on her face and torso,
authorities said.
The folk healer poured an alcohol-based cologne into a steel bowl over a
chopped onion and the man's photograph and then set the combination on fire,
Laredo Police Detective Jorge Maldonado said.
The fire flamed out of control, burning Delia Ponce, Maldonado said. She was
hospitalized in the intensive care unit at Brooke Army Medical Center in San
Antonio. Hospital officials would not release her condition.
Sergio Hinojosa, 45, a self-described healer whom Ponce had visited before,
conducted the ceremony Thursday. Police are still investigating how Ponce was
burned, Maldonado told the San Antonio Express-News.
No one answered the door during the newspaper's visit to Hinojosa's apartment
Monday. A middle-age woman waiting outside said she had an appointment.
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