Mexican mother arrested after son’s eyes gouged out


Medical personnel transport a young boy, whose eyes had been gouged out, to the hospital after he had been brought in by helicopter in Mexico City May 24, 2012. A mother in Mexico has been arrested on suspicion of gouging out the eyes of her five year-old boy in a dark religious ceremony. Police said on Thursday they had arrested seven people, including the boy’s parents, after his eyeballs were pulled out of his head during the ritual in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class neighborhood on the eastern flank of Mexico City.

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