Brazil toddler has 50 sewing needles inside body

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BRASILIA, Brazil -A 2-year-old Brazilian boy has as many as 50 metal sewing needles inside his body and a doctor treating the boy said Wednesday they were apparently stuck there one by one.

Dr. Luiz Cesar Soltoski told The Associated Press that surgeons hope to remove most of the needles — some as long as 2 inches (5 centimeters)— but because some are stuck in his lungs, they have to wait until the child's breathing improves.Doctors found no signs of outside wounds on the boy,

Some cannot be removed; they are too close to vital organs or actually inside them, Soltoski said.
The boy's mother, a maid, brought him to a hospital in the small northeastern city of Ibotirama on Thursday, saying he was complaining of pain. Three days later, after X-rays revealed some of the needles, doctors had him shifted to a larger hospital in Barreiras.

The mother told police she doesn't know how the needles got inside her son, but police have opened an investigation. The boy's name was withheld because of his age.

The boy's father, Gessivaldo Alves, told Brazil's A Tarde newspaper that he believes his son could have been a victim of a black magic ritual. Alves said he visited the home where the boy was living with his mother and stepfather and found unspecified items that could be used for black magic, A Tarde reported.
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I cannot even imagine anyone doing this. Madre de Dios!

[Mist]

1. Easily the most bizarre thing I've read not today, but ever. nt

[LeftHander]

2. I hope they can pin this on someone....

they must of been pretty sharp.

[mike_c]

3. oh yeah, that happens all the time when black magic is involved....

I'm sorry-- what century is this? I think I got my Tardis discombobulated or something. I thought this was the twenty-first fucking century! Holy WTF, Batman!

[rucky]

4. This article is useless without x-ray pics...

[dave29]

5. child abuse = not funny.

I hope they catch whomever did this

[TeeYiYi]

6. He must have swallowed them....

...since there was no sign of injury on the outside of his body. And, if the mother had anything to do with it, she'd have known the reason for the pain and avoided the hospital.

TYY :shrug:

[notadmblnd]

7. Could the child have swallowed them?

[arcadian]

8. How could a mother not know what her 2 year old is up to 24/7?

And it would seem this was going on over a period of time. In the most fucked up scenario the parents were doing this maliciously, in the less fucked up scenario they were doing it out of some fucked up belief in a folk medicine or some such shit.

[TeeYiYi]

9. Wouldn't that be impossible?...

...to know what a 2 year old is up to 24/7? Especially since, in this case, the mother works as a maid and doesn't have the luxury of being a stay at home mom...

TYY