Wino Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 If this isn't a case of child abuse, I don't know what is. These parents should be put away for a long time. By MARCO SIBAJA Marco Sibaja BRASILIA, Brazil – The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy found with 42 sewing needles in his body confessed to jabbing them into the toddler during a month of rituals with a lover who he claimed received instructions through trances, Brazilian police said Thursday. Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, a 30-year-old bricklayer, told detectives the woman went into trances and would "command him to stick the needles in the boy's body," police inspector Helder Fernandes Santana said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. The woman, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos, paid to have the needles measuring up to 2 inches (5 centimeters) blessed by a woman who practices the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble and convinced Magalhaes that inserting them into the boy would somehow allow them to be together, Santana said. Police, however, believe she was out for revenge on the mother. The two held sessions every few days over a full month in which Magalhaes stuck the needles into the boy several at a time, Santana said. "According to his confession, he acted under influence of the woman, but it was he who stuck the needles in the boy's body," the inspector said. Magalhaes and dos Santos were arrested, though no charges have yet been filed. Dos Santos is not believed to be a member of any religious or occult group, and authorities believe she came up with the idea of the rituals on her own, Santana said. Authorities also detained the woman who blessed the needles so she could be questioned, but Santana said he expects she will be released without charge because she did not know how they were being used. Magalhaes denied involvement when he was first questioned on Monday, but confessed after police detained him on Wednesday, Santana said. An enraged crowd of more than 100 people surrounded and hurled rocks at the police station in the small northeastern city of Ibotirama, where the suspects were held Wednesday night. Santana said they broke out a window of his own car because they wrongly believed the suspects were in it. Extra police were called in to restore order and protect the suspects. They were then taken to an undisclosed lockup for their own protection, and it was not immediately clear whether they had legal representation. The child was airlifted to a hospital in northeastern Brazil on Thursday because two of the needles are close to his heart, but it was not immediately clear when doctors might be able to remove them. Surgeons in the city of Barreiras in Bahia state, where the boy had been hospitalized since Sunday, had decided not to try to remove any needles immediately for fear they could cause more damage. Doctors located 42 needles in the boy, who was in stable condition after a 240-mile (390-kilometer) flight to the hospital in the coastal city of Salvador that has a special heart unit. Hospital spokeswoman Susy Moreno said an evaluation of when to perform surgery on the boy probably would not be finished until Friday. He was in an intensive care unit but was conscious, had undergone a battery of X-rays and was receiving antibiotics, a hospital statement said. While the boy was admitted with some internal bleeding, the blood was drained and he did not appear in imminent danger of more bleeding. The boy's mother, a maid, took him to a hospital in Ibotirama, population about 25,000, on Dec. 10, saying he was complaining of pain. After X-rays revealed the cause, the mother told police she didn't know how the needles got inside her son, whose name was not released because of his age. Police and doctors concluded it would have been impossible for the boy to have ingested the needles — which have been also been found in a lung, his left leg and spread throughout his abdomen. Afro-Brazilian religions practiced in Brazil have no ceremonies, rituals or practices involving harm to people, said Nelson Inocencio, director of African-Brazilian studies at the University of Brasilia. He worried that the incident could hurt the image of the religions, of which Candomble is the most popular, and concentrated most in Bahia state. "African religions in Brazil suffer from prejudice and discrimination," he said. "What happened to this boy without a doubt could feed into the prejudice against Afro-Brazilian traditions." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091217/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_boy_needles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Chang Posted December 20, 2009 Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 Sounds like voodoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2009 Sounds like a sadistic ritual, for whatever reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 More info on this sicko. By BRADLEY BROOKS, Associated Press Writer RIO DE JANEIRO – A Brazilian man publicly confessed to pushing dozens of needles into his 2-year-old stepson, saying Sunday in a jail cell interview that he intended to kill the boy out of spite for his wife and didn't think he would be discovered. Speaking to Globo television's "Fantastico" program from the northeastern state of Bahia, 30-year-old bricklayer Roberto Carlos Magalhaes described mixing water with wine to dope the child before he and his lover held the boy down and stuck sewing needles into him. "I did this two or three times a week during one month," Magalhaes said. The boy was too drunk on the wine mixture to cry while he inserted the needles, he said, but felt the pain after the alcohol wore off. "It was truly an unbearable suffering," said Magalhaes. "It was to get back at the boy's mother. I thought the needles would work their way through his body and kill the boy. It was a way to kill without anyone discovering." But the pain led the toddler to complain to his mother, and on Dec. 10 she took him to a hospital where X-rays revealed about 30 needles lodged throughout his body. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_boy_needles;_ylt=AtQmLZFZmwmuR81EmcpxEllH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTNhajRxOGhtBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkxMjIxL2x0X2JyYXppbF9ib3lfbmVlZGxlcwRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzUEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNicmF6aWxtYW5zdHU- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Chang Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Castration would be too good for this piece of human garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Although this crime is nasty, I think castration is a bit severe. What would you have done to the woman, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Chang Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 Although this crime is nasty, I think castration is a bit severe. What would you have done to the woman, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos? I'd say it's Guiliani time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 How could anyone feed a two year old a wine mixture and then try to kill him with sewing needles. Throw them both in jail and throw away the key. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Chang Posted December 21, 2009 Report Share Posted December 21, 2009 and feed him wine and stick him with needles! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rucus7 Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Mix mental illness with Religion, this is the outcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beer Chang Posted December 22, 2009 Report Share Posted December 22, 2009 Mix mental illness with Religion, this is the outcome. Now that's a dangerous combination! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted December 23, 2009 Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Almost synonymous. IMHO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 23, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 23, 2009 Dozens of needles are seen in this undated X-ray handout taken of a two-year-old boy in Salvador. A Brazilian toddler is making a good recovery after surgery to remove the first of 31 sewing needles pushed into his body by his stepfather in a cruel act that has enraged locals. reuters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Here is the latest report on the condition of this two year old. By TALES AZZONI, Associated Press Writer SAO PAULO – Doctors have removed four more sewing needles from the neck of a 2-year-old Brazilian boy who was stuck with dozens by his stepfather in an alleged plot to spite his wife. Doctors successfully operated on the toddler Monday in the northeastern city of Salvador. One of the four needles was dangerously close to his spine. The boy was doing well following the three-hour surgery, Ana Neri Hospital spokeswoman Susy Moreno said. Last week doctors removed 14 needles from the boy's intestines, liver and bladder, and in an earlier surgery they extracted four needles from near the toddler's heart and lungs. Police have formally accused the stepfather, 30-year-old Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, of attempted murder. He recently said in a TV interview he tried to kill the child as revenge against his wife. Police also formally accused Magalhaes' lover, 47-year-old Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos. Magalhaes said he drugged the boy with a mixture of wine and water and had dos Santos hold the child down while he pushed nearly three dozen needles into the child's body. He said the boy was too drunk to cry while the needles were inserted, but felt pain after the alcohol wore off. Magalhaes said he thought the needles would work their way through the boy's body and kill him without anyone discovering. The needles were discovered on X-rays after the toddler's constant complaints led his mother to take him to a hospital. The neck surgery had been scheduled for later in the week, but new exams Monday showed the needle near the spine could cause serious danger if not extracted quickly. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091229/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_brazil_boy_needles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvdkeyes Posted December 29, 2009 Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Each of the needles that are removed should be shoved into the father, preferably into the most sensitive and painful spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wino Posted December 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 29, 2009 Let's hope the doctors are able to safely remove the needles that are dangerously close to his spine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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