Brazil Stepfather confesses to sticking needles in toddler UPDATE #7 worst removed

[stace1319]

that is so sad and horrible. The whole time I was reading this I was thinking abou tmy two year old daughter. I can't imagine the pain that poor baby went though. It makes me sick

[Catty1]

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/...y-surgery.html
Doctors to extract needles from Brazilian boy
Last Updated: Friday, December 18, 2009 | 12:44 PM ET

The Associated Press


In this frame taken from a TV Globo video, a person points at an X-ray of a two-year-old boy showing needles inside his body in a hospital in Ibotirama, northern Brazil, on Tuesday. (Agencia O Globo/Associated Press)

Doctors prepared Friday to perform emergency surgery on a Brazilian toddler to remove some of the 42 sewing needles allegedly inserted into him by his stepfather during a series of rituals.

Surgeons in the northeastern city of Salvador plan to take out a needle that punctured the two-year-old boy's heart and others threatening vital organs, said Susy Moreno, a spokeswoman at the hospital where the boy is being treated.

Friday's operation could be followed by more surgery, she said.

Police say the boy's stepfather confessed to pushing 42 supposedly "blessed" sewing needles deep into the child because his lover told him to while in trances. The rituals were performed over a period of a month to try to keep the couple together, the stepfather told police.

Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, a 30-year-old bricklayer, told detectives the woman would enter into trances and "command him to stick the needles in the boy's body," police inspector Helder Fernandes Santana told The Associated Press by telephone.

'What happened to this boy without a doubt could feed into the prejudice against Afro-Brazilian traditions.'— Nelson Inocencio, University of Brasilia

The lover, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos, paid to have the needles measuring up to five centimetres blessed by a woman who practised the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble, and convinced Magalhaes that inserting them into the boy would somehow allow them to be together, Santana alleged.

Police, however, allege dos Santos was out for revenge on the boy's mother, though they did not say why.

"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 alleges.

Magalhaes and dos Santos were both 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.
Afro-Brazilian religions

The two were taken to an undisclosed lockup for their own protection after a mob threw stones at the police station where they were being held. It was not immediately clear whether they had legal representation.

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.

The boy's mother, a maid, took him to a hospital in the town of Ibotirama 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. The boy was later transferred for more advanced evaluation at a much larger hospital in the coastal city of Salvador.

Police and doctors concluded it would have been impossible for the boy to have ingested the needles — which have also been found in a lung and in his left leg, and spread throughout his abdomen.

Afro-Brazilian religions practised 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.

"What happened to this boy without a doubt could feed into the prejudice against Afro-Brazilian traditions," he said.
© The Canadian Press, 2009

[RICHARD]

I can do any medical story until I start seeing pics or xrays.

Ditto back on him.

[lvpets2002]

That poor baby boy.. How so painfull this must be.. I am just speechless on this Horrible Thing to have been done to him.. I hope they stick needles into the woman & man that did this Unforgivable act..

[Catty1]

Apparently three people have been arrested; the father, his lover and another woman. Rumour is the gf wanted revenge on the ex-wife; the poor mom knew nothing until her son complained of pain and she took him to the doctor.

Prayers for her and her son.

[Catty1]

I just pasted part of the article; go to the link for the whole thing.



This pic from when the little boy was on his way to surgery. Bless these doctors!


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...mg8ogD9CM81980

Needles successfully extracted from Brazil boy

By ALAN CLENDENNING (AP) – 9 hours ago

SAO PAULO — Surgeons successfully removed the four most life-threatening needles from the lung and heart area of a Brazilian toddler, and are evaluating when to extract dozens more allegedly stuck deep into the boy by his stepfather.

Police say 30-year-old bricklayer Roberto Carlos Magalhaes confessed to pushing the metal sewing needles into the 2-year-old child because his lover told him to while in trances. The rituals were performed over a month supposedly to keep the couple together.

Late Friday, the child was in stable condition after nearly five hours of surgery to remove the four needles, which were up to 2 inches (5 centimeters), said Susy Moreno, a spokeswoman for the hospital in the northeastern city of Salvador where the boy was in intensive care.

"He's OK, the surgery was a success, he's doing fine," she said in a telephone interview.

Dozens more needles remain inside the boy's body, but the four removed were considered the most life-threatening.

Doctors will evaluate the boy's recovery before deciding when to perform at least two more surgeries to remove more needles, she said.

Police say they believe the lover, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos, told Magalhaes the ritual would keep them together, but she was really seeking revenge on Magalhaes' wife by having him hurt her son.

The bricklayer told detectives that dos Santos would enter into trances and give him commands to insert the needles, police inspector Helder Fernandes Santana said. The stepfather told police the rituals happened every few days for a full month, with him inserting several needles during each session.

Dos Santos paid to have the needles blessed by a woman who practiced the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomble, Santana said.

Authorities initially estimated the boy had as many as 50 needles were inside the boy. After batteries of tests were performed, doctors now believe there are closer to 30 needles inside, but they don't know for sure.

"They haven't focused on how many there are because they are concentrating on the most dangerous ones," Moreno said.

Magalhaes and dos Santos were both arrested, though no charges were filed.

[Marigold2]

Religon stricks again. More evil has come from religon then any other reason. Black magic, white magic, Budda, Christian, Muslim, Hindu everyone is right and everyone is wrong and meanwhile we will kill to make our point, start wars, torture, blowup, hang, rape, bomb all in the name of our God. Why why why? How much less evil would there be if no one believed in a God or God's?