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

[moosmom]

That's despicable!!!!! I'll bet ya this pig started with little animals. Wanna take bets?? I certainly hope they don't plan on returning this child back to this monster.

Just another reason why I HATE PEOPLE!!!!!!

[Catty1]

Marigold...let's generalize, shall we? And Donna - ALL people? You're a member of the same species I am...draw the line somewhere!

This was the result of a sick person in a cult. She used it for her own ends.

Hitler painted a whole race (and nuns and priests and more) of people with the same brush. I would hope we all know better than that now.

Prosecute and punish the individual, not faith that has helped many to be better human beings.

[Catty1]

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/...ep-father.html


Brazilian man says needles meant to kill stepson
Last Updated: Monday, December 21, 2009 | 11:10 AM ET

The Associated Press

A jailed Brazilian admitted in a television interview that he shoved nearly three dozen sewing needles into his two-year-old stepson because he wanted to kill the boy to spite his wife.

Speaking from his cell, 30-year-old bricklayer Roberto Carlos Magalhaes told how he doped the child with wine mixed in water, then stuck needles into his body while his lover held the boy down.

"I did this two or three times a week during one month," Magalhaes said in an interview with Globo TV's Fantastico program Sunday from a jail in the northeastern state of Bahia.

The boy was too drunk from the wine mixture to cry while the needles were being pushed in, but he felt pain after the alcohol wore off, Magalhaes said.

"It was truly an unbearable suffering," he said. "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.

The boy underwent a five-hour operation in the northeastern city of Salvador on Friday to remove four rusty needles that most threatened his life, near his heart and in his lungs.
Boy needs more surgeries

Doctors said Sunday the child was doing well and would likely undergo two more surgeries, the next one Wednesday at the earliest, to extract needles up to five centimetres long from his abdomen and spine.

Suzy Moreno, a spokeswoman for Hospital Ana Nery, said hundreds of people across Brazil had contacted the facility to inquire about the boy.

"Many people are coming by to bring Christmas presents," she said. "Many are also calling us to express their outrage.… The support has been incredible."

Along with Magalhaes, police believe his lover, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos, was also seeking revenge on Magalhaes' wife.

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.

Magalhaes and dos Santos were both arrested, though no charges had been filed. They were taken to an undisclosed location for their own protection after a mob threw stones at the police station where they were being held.

Dos Santos is not believed to be a member of any religious or occult group, and authorities believe the pair came up with the idea on their own.

The boy's name is not being released because of his age.
© The Canadian Press, 2009

[JenBKR]

This story has me literally shaking. For someone to use an innocent child for revenge?? As the mother of a 2-year old boy, I am totally sick over this. I can't wait to be done with work today so I can give Ty a big hug. And this idiot's story keeps changing....did the gf put him in some kind of trance or not? I think that's just an excuse. Ugh...

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?

You're right....we should just completely ban God. THAT would certainly make people more moral Seriously, you are so judgemental, in so many of your posts....I honestly feel sorry for you. Do you honestly believe that all of those things wouldn't happen if no one believed in God?? Get over yourself.