Brazil’s ‘needle boy’ out of danger after operation
Early Balloon boy was a hot topic. Now it’s Needle Boy from Brazil going to dominate the headlines.
The boy may have to face future operations
X-rays showed more than 30 sewing needles inside the boy
Doctors in Brazil say a two-year-old boy who was pierced with at least 31 sewing needles is out of danger following a third successful operation.
The boy’s stepfather Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, 30, has confessed to inserting the needles into the boy’s body as part of a black magic ritual.
He said he did it as a means of taking revenge on his wife.
Mr Magalhaes told Brazil’s Globo TV that he inserted the needles one at a time, up to three times in a month.
He said he got the boy drunk before driving the needles in.
Mr Magalhaes, 30, and his lover Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos have been formally charged with attempted murder.
Police said Mr Magalhaes, a bricklayer, told them his mistress had urged him to ritually kill the child to take revenge on his wife.
The boy’s mother had taken him to hospital in the north-eastern state of Bahia, suffering from stomach pains and vomiting.
via bbc
