GUILTY Mexico - Carmen Rios García for gouging out son's eyes, Nezahualcoyotl, May 2012

A Mexican mother was arrested after allegedly gouging out the eyes of her 5-year-old son with her bare hands during a cult ritual, according to the Mexico City daily El Universal.

Carmen Rios García, 23, allegedly carried out the attack with her sister in her home in Nezahualcoyotl, central Mexico, on Thursday when the child refused to close his eyes during a prayer ceremony to prepare for the "end of the world."

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Fernando Caleb Alvarado Rios, now aged seven, had his eyes gouged out in May 2012 by his mother, aunt, two uncles and grandparents after he refused to participate in a ritual in which the family called on Satan to protect them from an apocalypse...

Policeman Benet Curiel said he witnessed the scene as the Satanists hunched over the screaming boy in the kitchen where the two women were covered in blood... "We called for an ambulance, and we were keeping the group against the wall at gunpoint and away from the boy"...

Today, more than two years after the incident in May 2012, a court has sentenced the group to 30 years each in jail.

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