A Mexican family has been jailed for plucking out
the eyes of their five-year-old relative with a
spoon during a satanic ritual to bring about the
end of the world.
Fernando Caleb Alvarado Rios was ordered to
close his eyes out of respect with his mother,
grandparents, aunt and uncles as they danced in
a circle and called on Satan to reveal himself.
But when he was too scared to do so, his
mother, Maria del Carmen Garcia Rios, grabbed a
spoon and the entire group gouged them
out.They were caught when neighbours, who had
heard loud chanting, came to investigate and saw
the child screaming in pain.
Today, more than two years after the incident in
May 2012, a court has sentenced the group to 30
years each in jail.
The family, from the town of Nezahualcoyotl,
believed the ritual would bring them closer to
Satan who could claim them as his own and save
them from a deadly earthquake.
Neighbour, Joaquin Arguello, told the court, that
he had always thought the family were devout
and deeply religious, but had not realised that
they were Satanists.
He said: ‘We could hear screaming and we were
banging on the door but nobody was answering,
then a police patrol came past and one of the
women who was with us ran into the road to flag
it down, and officers forced their way inside.’
Policeman Benet Curiel said that they had
witnessed the scene of horror inside in which the
scantily clad Satanists had been hunched over
the screaming boy in the kitchen and that the two
women were covered in blood.
‘I asked one of the women what was going on
and she told me her name was Carmen Rios
Garcia, and that the boy was her son.’She
identified him as Fernando Caleb Alvarado Rios,
and said he was five years old, and said that she
and her sister Lizbeth had done it.’
She admitted that she had told him repeatedly to
close his eyes and when he had told her ‘No, I do
not want to close them’ she had ordered the
others to help remove his eyes.
Fernando has since been given glass eyes and is
now in care.
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