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Doctors remove 22 needles from toddler's body

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Brazilian doctors have decided not to immediately remove nine of the 31 needles found in a toddler's body because his life is no longer in danger.

Doctor Roque Aras said Tuesday that the remaining needles are small and don't pose a significant threat. Aras isn't ruling out future operations, however.

The 2-year-old boy had his third surgery in 10 days on Monday to extract four needles from his neck. Doctors removed 14 more from his intestines, liver and bladder last week, and four from near his heart and lungs earlier.

Police accuse the boy's stepfather, Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, and his lover of attempted murder, though prosecutors have not yet filed charges.

Magalhaes recently said in an interview with Globo TV that he tried to kill the child as revenge against his wife, with whom he fought a lot.

Magalhaes said he drugged the boy with wine and had his lover, Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos, hold the child down while he pushed needles into the body. He said the boy was too drunk to cry while the needles were inserted, but felt pain after the alcohol wore off.

Magalhaes said he thought the needles would work their way through the boy's body and kill him without anyone discovering. But the pain eventually led the boy to complain to his mother and X-rays revealed needles throughout his body.
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12 comments // Doctors remove 22 needles from toddler's body

  • Jessii_Latham
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      Jessii_Latham  

    • this is so cruel

      i have heard quite a few stories (and one quite personal to me) of people breaking up and fighting and killing the other's baby as revenge
      it's not to punish the baby, but to punish the ex.

      this is just torture.
      and they actually got him drunk before they did it? did they think they were being kind by getting him drunk so it didn't hurt?!

      i've had this surgery myself.. only for 3 needles though but even then, the swelling and bruising of the body trying to push the needles out was painful enough. this poor child.

      the surgery will have left the boy feeling sore, very sore and to have to have so many ops at once. :/

      it's heartbreaking that mankind has reduced itself to this

    • 2 years ago
  • sugarlilly
  • dustinhans
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  • treewolf39
  • smallgod
  • hell0everything
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      hell0everything  

    • I looove embroidering, and I've jabbed a needle into my finger countless times. I'm pretty much a grown woman and it makes me curse loudly and tear up every time. I can only imagine how this poor little boy feels.

      So sick, I hope this man and his "lover" get punished to the fullest extent, and the little boy makes a full recovery with minimal physical & emotional damage.

    • 3 years ago
  • iknew
  • nanac
  • eskimoe
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      eskimoe  

    • Well he is insane. And so is his lover. To do that repeatedly means they never felt bad about it. It must be odd to be missing that part of being human. Compassion.

    • 3 years ago
  • xiola
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      xiola  

    • Yes. The planning in this is soooo sick. Why no charges have been filed yet is puzzling... I just feel so sorry for the child. Why one would punish a child in this way is beyond me. So very sad.

    • 3 years ago
  • kagemusha23

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