A 4-year-old Amish boy who was thrown into an Ohio lake to be “given” to God drowned alongside his father, who swam out deep into the water to test his own faith, according to authorities.

The deaths of 4-year-old Vincent Miller and his father, 45-year-old Marcus Miller, both of Millersburg, part of Ohio’s Amish Country, were preceded by a “spiritual delusion,” Tuscarawas County Sheriff Orvis Campbell said, according to Fox 8.

The young boy’s mother was “clearly in mental crisis” and told authorities she had “given her son to God” by throwing him in Atwood Lake, which the family was visiting this past weekend.

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Divers recovered the 4-year-old’s body on Saturday, and the body of his father on Sunday. Campbell said the father is b

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