FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WFLA) — A 6-year-old was found dead in his bedroom in Florida after his mother tried to "exorcise demons" from him, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office.

School resource deputies requested a welfare check on Friday for the boy, Ra'myl Pierre, after he had been missing from school for two weeks.

A deputy went to the home that morning and met the boy's mother, 31-year-old Rhonda Paulynice, who led the deputy into the bedroom where he found the boy dead in his bed.

St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro said the child's cause of death was not immediately apparent and that an autopsy was scheduled for Saturday.

While interviewing Paulynice, detectives learned that she had last spoken to the child on May 18, which is when they believe the homicide occurre

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