When a 6-year-old boy hadn't been to school in weeks, deputies went to his home for a welfare check and found out his mother had killed him during an exorcism, Florida authorities said. Rhonda Paulynice,

The child discovered in a bedroom at his St. Lucie County home Friday had been missing from school since May 14, and investigators believe he was killed on May 18.

A Florida mother who’s accused of killing her six-year-old son claimed she was “told by God to exorcise demons out of the child’s body,” police say. Rhonda Paulynice, 31, has been charged with the second degree murder of her son, Ra’myl Pierre, according to authorities.