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Mexican mother arrested after son's eyes gouged out during
satanic ritual
Reuters
Medical personnel transport a young boy, whose eyes had been
gouged out, to the hospital after he had been brought in by
helicopter in Mexico City May 24, 2012. A mother in Mexico has
been arrested on suspicion of gouging out the eyes of her five
year-old boy in a dark satanic religious ceremony. Police said on
Thursday they had arrested seven people, including the boy's
parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out of his head during the
ritual in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighborhood on the
eastern flank of Mexico City.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A mother in Mexico has been arrested on
suspicion of gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son during a
satanic ceremony.
Police said on Thursday they had arrested seven people, including
the boy's parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out during the
ritual in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighborhood on the
eastern flank of Mexico City.
"There was some kind of satanic ceremony inside a house," said
Laura Uribe, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors in the State of
Mexico, a populous region that borders much of the capital.
She did not give details of what the satanic ritual involved.
The mother is believed to have removed the eyes with her bare
hands because the boy refused to close them during the ceremony,
police told a news conference.
Officers found the mutilated boy in the house on Thursday morning,
before rushing him to a hospital in Mexico City for treatment.
(Reporting By David Alire Garcia; Editing by Eric Beech)