Arkansas politician who gave away his two adopted daughters to rapist had an exorcism performed on the girls because he and his wife thought they were possessed

Rep. Justin Harris adopted two girls in 2013 but gave them away to a colleague, Eric Francis, after six months, who then raped one of the girls

Francis was convicted of sex crimes in 2014 and given 40-year sentence

Harris's role in giving the girls to a rapist only emerged in an expose by the Arkansas Times last week

Babysitter said they kept one girl in a room monitored by cameras because they thought the 'possessed' girls were communicating telepathically

She said a team from Alabama performed exorcisms on the girls while the Harrises stood outside the home with their sons - but the couple deny this

Harris has attempted to justify the decision to give up the girls by saying they were violent and threatened to kill his family

The foster mother who cared for the girls before the Harris family says the girls were never violent, and that she warned how difficult they would be

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