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.
Statue Satanic Temple wants publicly acknowledged in Oklahoma City
Since they are protected by the First Amendment, a devil-worshipping group will proceed with its controversial ceremony on Sept. 21, despite fervent protests by residents of Oklahoma City and a lawsuit from the Catholic Church.
The cofounder of Dakhma of Angra Mainyu said that the religious and educational organization decided to hold the black mass in public, but it will be a “tamer” version than some traditional satanic ceremonies. For example, they will be substituting vinegar for acts involving urine to comply with state health laws.
The upcoming event has generated controversy because black masses mock Christianity and the rituals that make up their services but organizers see it as an integral part of their religion. The Oklahoma City Archdiocese filed a lawsuit against the satanic group after media reports that it was in possession of a consecrated host, a wafer that some Catholics believe is literally the body of Christ. The host in question has since been handed over to the archdiocese and the legal action has been stopped, but that has not put all of the archbishop’s concerns to rest.
“One of the dictates of the church is not only to educate the members but to educate the public,” Dakhma of Angra Mainyu’s Adam Daniels said, “and to debunk the Hollywood-projected image of our beliefs.”
The parks and recreation department, which rented the space to the group for $420, cited First Amendment protections in allowing the group to meet in a public facility.
The group is separate from The Satanic Temple, a national group with similar beliefs that has long fought with Oklahoma City officials about the right to have a statue of the devil placed prominently in the Oklahoma State Capitol. Lucien Greaves, the leader of The Satanic Temple, told ABC News that Dakhma of Angra Mainyu may be timing its black mass in order to coincide with the publicity drummed up by The Satanic Temple’s legal battle for the devil statue.
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