MEXICO CITY.
A mother in Mexico has been arrested on suspicion of
gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son during a ceremony.
Police said on Thursday they had arrested seven people, including the
boy’s parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out during the ritual in
Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighborhood on the eastern flank of
Mexico City.
Maria Del Carmen Rios Garcia is being presented
to the media after her arrest in Mexico City May 24, 2012. Rios Garcia
has been arrested on suspicion of gouging out the eyes of her five
year-old boy in a dark religious ceremony.
“There was some kind of ceremony inside a house,” said Laura
Uribe, a spokesperson for state prosecutors in the State of Mexico, a
populous region that borders much of the capital.
She did not give details of what the ritual involved.
The mother is believed to have removed the eyes with her bare
hands because the boy refused to close them during the ceremony, police
told a news conference.
Officers found the mutilated boy in the house on Thursday
morning, before rushing him to a hospital in Mexico City for treatment.
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