PALM COAST -- A Palm Coast woman found beaten and lying on the side of the road in St. Johns County said members of a voodoo cult are responsible.

According to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Michelle Wood was found covered in blood with both eyes swollen shut early Monday. The police report states five men and a woman tied a rope around Wood’s right wrist.  They also tied a bungee cord around her left ankle.

Wood said she used a pocket knife to cut the rope off her wrist after the Sunday attack.

Wood told investigators she was once a member of a Santeria voodoo group in Flagler County, but since she left to join the Christian faith, she has been threatened, abducted and beaten.

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