A 15-YEAR-OLD killed after having a wooden stake plunged into her eye could have been attacked in a bizarre satanic ritual, police sources claim.

Jessica Valeria was found half-naked and brutally beaten with a wooden broomstick embedded in her right eye in Torreon in the northern state of Coahuila, Mexico.

1 Jessica Valeria, 15, was found brutally beaten with a wooden broomstick through her eye behind a house in Torreon, northern Mexico Credit: CEN

Sources close to the investigation told Vanguardia there were indications it could have been a satanic rite - but the Attorney General's Office denied it was probing that line specifically.

Three 17-year-olds - two boys and one girl - have been arrested in connection with the horror attack last Satudray in the Loma Real colony.

A source told Vanguardia that investigators found "indications of what could be a satanic rite as the motive of crime".

They said the fatal blow had been "forceful with extreme violence", and that other markings on Miss Valeria's body suggested it had been a satanic act.

They added: "But everything is an assumption, that's why the investigations are carried out.

"It is an unfortunate case, very unfortunate."

The source also revealed it appeared more people other than those arrested had been involved in the alleged satanic practice, but this did not mean they took part in an attack.

It comes just months after three friends were accused of killing a restaurant worker they were allegedly trying to turn into a vampire during a satanic ceremony in Chihuahua, northern Mexico.

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His body was found inside black bags with several blows to the face, and a wound in the neck, as well as other signs of suffocation.

Another ritual death also took place in the city of Torreon in September 2016 when a pit bull dog was hanged by a cult.

An expert warned "devil worship" is rife in the central American country, with many holding a fixation on vampires.

Miss Valeria's body was found at around noon on February 7 in the back garden of a house in Herta de la Joya, a suburban area of the city.

She was wearing just a blue shirt, but police said investigations show she had not been sexually abused.

Police said they did not know why Jessica was at the house or whether she was taken there by force.

But Gerardo Márquez, a delegate of the Attorney General's Office of Justice of the State of Coahuila in Laguna (PGJEC), reportedly denied that the murder was part of a satanic ritual.

He told El Siglo de Torreon: "We are not investigating that line specifically, the three young people [arrested] are just like any other suspected criminal."

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