Charity Miranda was a typical teenager, a popular student with good grades who once was a cheerleader and worked after school at a pizza parlor.

Her death was anything but typical: Police said she was suffocated by her mother and sister who believed she was possessed."The account given to us by the mother is that she believed the daughter was possessed by demons and this was an effort to rid her of those demons," Suffok County Police Detective Lt. John Gierasch said Monday.

Vivian Miranda, 39, and Serena Martin, 20, were to be arraigned Tuesday on charges of second-degree murder, Gierasch said.

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Charity's body was found at the foot of stairs inside her home late Sunday by an aunt who had come to pick up some clothes.

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