Murder in Sevan – a result of brainwashing

PanARMENIAN.Net - Parenticide committed by the 23-year-old Arman Torosyan, is clearly a result of brainwashing, widely practiced by destructive sects with whom the young person belonged, according to Alexander Amaryan, the head of the Center for Aid and Rehabilitation to the Victims of Destructive Cults.

At news conference entitled Sects as a Cause for Murders and Suicides, the expert characterised the crime as a religious murder.

“Armenia lacks statistics on religions murders and suicides, for the absence of specialists who could determine the character of the crime. As a rule, such crimes are characterized as domestic.”

A psychologist, psychotherapy specialist Marina Avetisyan, in turn, described the issue as personal, rather than linked to the young person’s connections with the sects. “The problem lies in spiritual education of the person,” she said, urging to develop spiritual education program to be further implemented in schools and kindergartens.