Boy's eyes gouged out with spoon 'by mum in Satanic ritual'
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A MUM has been arrested over claims she gouged out the eyes of her five-year-old son with a SPOON as part of a Satanic ritual.
Tortured Fernando was airlifted to hospital after his ordeal as cops arrested her and SIX other family members including his grandparents and dad, also called Fernando.
They were apparently convinced the world would end next Sunday but believed they could prevent the earthquake that would destroy mankind if they killed him.
Mexican cops say María del Carmen Ríos García, 28, performed the grisly ceremony.
Cops swooped after neighbours heard him screaming while aunt, Ruth, 22, allegedly held his head down and his uncle JESUS, 25, ran into the street shouting for help.
A neighbour said: “They were so obsessed with religion. They often said the devil was nearby and the end of the world was coming.”
The boy’s other relatives said they were going to kill him to “cast the demon out” to “avoid an earthquake to save this earthly world”.
Laura Uribe, a spokeswoman for state prosecutors, said: “There was some kind of ceremony inside a house."
Officers watched them praying in an unknown tongue. Officials believe García took out her son’s eyes when he refused to close them during the ritual.
A police spokesman said: “They said that, using a spoon, they took out both his eyeballs.
“We arrived at the scene and upon making contact with the child, it was determined that his right eyeball was gone. The one on the left side was there but out of the socket."
Officers were called to a house in Nezahualcóyotl near Mexico City early yesterday.
The boy’s brothers, a baby and child aged nine, were also taken away.
Fernando was in a stable but serious condition after being rushed to the city's Public Security Department where he was airlifted to the Red Cross Pediatric Hospital in Mexico City. He was later transferred to the Children's Hospital in nearby Tacubaya.
I hope they can reattach his right eyeball and reinsert his left eyeball. I feel so bad for the child. Please let his sight return.... He's just a little boy.
I hope he's taken away from those assholes. I hope he never has to live with them again.
