Posted on 06/20/2008 12:16:46 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A seven-year-old boy was kept chained in a closet as relatives hacked off pieces of his flesh to eat, a court has heard.
In a case with echoes of the Fritzl family horror in Austria, Ondrej Mauerova was partially skinned in the closet in a cellar at his home in Kurim near Brno, in the Czech Republic, according to reports.
The abuse – involving members of a religious cult – was uncovered by chance last May when a neighbour's television baby monitor picked up graphic pictures of what was happening next door.
Ondrej and his nine-year-old brother Jakub were locked and chained in the cellar for months by their mother Klara, 31 – a member of a group called the Grail Movement.
He was caged, beaten and gagged to stop him screaming, according to reports.
Mauerova had the monitor installed so that she could watch the abuse from her kitchen but the images were picked up by a neighbour who used an identical system to monitor a newborn baby, the regional court in Brno has heard.
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No doubt we should be dragging the F(lds) supporters into this thread to have them consider this variation on a theme they think acceptable.
As someone trained in the biological sciences, yet still believing that faith and science were not irreconcilable, I have often wondered if that were not so.
Her more recent hobby seems to be that of battlefield archaeology.
She makes an interesting comment on her site that the Germans put an end to the "Human Flesh Eaters".
I have long been fascinated by that comment and wondered if out of the 1930's famines, some larger scale cannibalistic cult arose?
Isn't a change in the brain over time how addictions usually form?
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