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The police were called. When both children woke up in a hospital, the youngest began screaming and violently thrashing about.
It took five men to hold the 7-year-old boy down, Campbell told The Star.
The children's behavior was so unusual and unexplainable that doctors feared their mother was suffering a mental illness and possibly encouraging the kids to act that way.
Ammons was reported to DCS for possible child abuse, but when she was evaluated by a hospital psychiatrist she was found to be of "sound mind."
Rev. Mike Maginot, who performed exorcisms on Latoya Ammons and her children, was contacted by a hospital's chaplain a day after Ammons' children were taken from Ammons' custody.
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Rev. Mike Maginot, who performed exorcisms on Latoya Ammons and her children, was contacted by a hospital's chaplain a day after Ammons' children were taken from Ammons' custody.
DCS family case manager Valerie Washington was then called in to evaluate the children. When she met them, the youngest, she reported, started to growl and flash his teeth at her. His eyes then rolled back into his head.
Then the 7-year-old lunged for his older brother and put his hands around his throat while saying in a voice that wasn't his own: "It's time to die. I will kill you," according to Washington's report.
Once released from his brother's grasp, the 9-year-old allegedly started head-butting his grandmother.
Campbell took his hand and started to pray when the boy walked backward up a wall and onto the ceiling. Once there he flipped and landed perfectly on his feet.
Washington's DCS report is corroborated by Willie Lee Walker, a registered nurse, who was in the room with them.
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"He walked up the wall, flipped over her [the grandmother] and stood there," Walker told The Star. "There's no way he could've done that."
Washington, in her report to police, described the boy as "gliding."
The 7-year-old boy stayed overnight in the hospital with Ammons while Campbell took the other two children to a relative's for the night.
They returned the next day, which was the youngest boy's 8th birthday, but were greeted by DCS workers, who took all three children into custody.
The following day, the hospital chaplain called Rev. Michael Maginot, asking him to perform an exorcism on the 9-year-old boy.
The reverend agreed to interview the mother and grandmother at the home. During their meeting, a bathroom light bulb flickered, blinds in the kitchen swung, and footprints appeared in the living room, he told the Star.
Charles Reed, the landlord of the allegedly haunted house in Gary, Ind., told the Indy Star that he never heard of demons in the home before Ammons moved in. Another resident has since moved in and hasn't complained, either.
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Charles Reed, the landlord of the allegedly haunted house in Gary, Ind., told the Indy Star that he never heard of demons in the home before Ammons moved in. Another resident has since moved in and hasn't complained, either.
After that, Ammons and Campbell moved out to temporarily live with a relative, but less than a week later were called back for an afternoon inspection by the DCS.
Gary police Capt. Charles Austin accompanied the two women with Washington and another officer.
Austin tells the Star that after that visit, he believes in both ghosts and demons. He also vowed to never go inside the house again.
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While at the home, the police audio recorder malfunctioned and brand-new batteries died. While listening to the recording later, an officer heard a voice whispering, "Hey," according to the police reports obtained by the Star.
Photos taken in the home's basement appeared to show a cloudy image near the stairs. When enlarged, the image reportedly resembled a human face.
A second, green image allegedly resembled a female figure.
Before the end of the month, a petition by the DCS for temporary wardship of the three children was granted by Lake Juvenile Court. The department argued that the children missed too much school for what the mother argued were illnesses because of their home's demons.
During their wardship, the children were given evaluations by separate psychologists. Each evaluation's report concluded that the children's behavior was reinforced by their mother or relatives.
In the meantime, several exorcisms were performed on Ammons by Rev. Maginot.
By June, Ammons and her mother had moved back to Indianapolis and by November, the children were returned to their mother.
The DCS met with the family and in their assessment found "no demonic presences or spirits in the home."
Charles Reed, the owner of the Indiana home, told the Star that he had never heard of such problems before the family moved in.
Another renter has since moved in and purportedly hasn't made any complaints, either.
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