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Mum gouges five-year-old son's eyes out with her fingers
28 May 2012 at 17:27hrs | Views
A five-year-old boy's mum has been arrested after apparently gouging his eyes out with her fingers.
Police in Mexico said eight people in total are being held after what is believed to have been a drug-fuelled ritual.
The boy was taken to a hospital in Nezahualcoyotl in a serious condition yesterday and later taken by helicopter to a more specialised facility in nearby Mexico City
A spokesman said a passing police car was flagged down and when police went into the house they found the mother in shock with the boy in her arms.
"Once the woman allowed local police to check the boy, they were astonished to see the boy had no eyeballs," the spokesman said.
He added that one witness told police she had passed out under the influence of drugs and when she regained consciousness, the boy's eyes were gone.
The boy's aunt and uncle were also apparently at the house when the adults began using some unspecified drug.
Two children and a 17-year-old were also found at the home. The boy's father was apparently not there at the time.
The crime appeared to have been part of a ritual, but was not apparently related to the Santa Muerte or Saint Death cult, some of whose followers were recently charged with the sacrificial killings of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman in northern Sonora state, he said.
In March, authorities in Sonora state arrested eight people for allegedly sacrificing the two boys and adult woman as offerings to Saint Death, an idol usually depicted as a robed skeleton.
Followers of the cult include criminals and drug traffickers.
While statues of Saint Death are common in many poor Mexican neighbourhoods, no altar or statue of the figure was found in the Nezahualcoyotl home.
Mexico's worst case of ritual sacrifice came with the notorious "narco-satanicos" killings of the 1980s.
Fifteen bodies, many of them with signs of ritual sacrifice, were unearthed at a ranch outside the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
Police in Mexico said eight people in total are being held after what is believed to have been a drug-fuelled ritual.
The boy was taken to a hospital in Nezahualcoyotl in a serious condition yesterday and later taken by helicopter to a more specialised facility in nearby Mexico City
A spokesman said a passing police car was flagged down and when police went into the house they found the mother in shock with the boy in her arms.
"Once the woman allowed local police to check the boy, they were astonished to see the boy had no eyeballs," the spokesman said.
He added that one witness told police she had passed out under the influence of drugs and when she regained consciousness, the boy's eyes were gone.
The boy's aunt and uncle were also apparently at the house when the adults began using some unspecified drug.
The crime appeared to have been part of a ritual, but was not apparently related to the Santa Muerte or Saint Death cult, some of whose followers were recently charged with the sacrificial killings of two 10-year-old boys and a 55-year-old woman in northern Sonora state, he said.
In March, authorities in Sonora state arrested eight people for allegedly sacrificing the two boys and adult woman as offerings to Saint Death, an idol usually depicted as a robed skeleton.
Followers of the cult include criminals and drug traffickers.
While statues of Saint Death are common in many poor Mexican neighbourhoods, no altar or statue of the figure was found in the Nezahualcoyotl home.
Mexico's worst case of ritual sacrifice came with the notorious "narco-satanicos" killings of the 1980s.
Fifteen bodies, many of them with signs of ritual sacrifice, were unearthed at a ranch outside the border city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas.
Source - Mirror
