Police: Aunt blinded boy, 12, with dagger

[Herman Munster]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/326994.html

A 12-year-old autistic, mute boy was stabbed in both eyes by his aunt in their Lauderhill home early Friday, Lauderhill police said.

''The preliminary prognosis is that the child is going to be blind after this,'' said Lt. Rick Rocco, spokesman for the Lauderhill Police Department.

The aunt also stabbed her own eye with the same military-type dagger, Rocco said.

Family members waited to report the incident that occurred at 8501 NW 53rd St., said Lt. Jeff Levy of Lauderhill Fire Rescue.

''We were told that the incident occurred at 1 a.m., but we were not notified until 11 a.m.,'' Levy said.

The boy and his aunt were taken to Broward General Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.

The woman, who faces attempted murder charges, gave police no explanation for the stabbing. Police say the boy's grandmother was his primary caretaker.

[AlCzervik]

1. omg.

the idea of anybody being stabbed is awful but a child and in the eyes?

[madeline_con]

2. That's horrible. Poor kid!

I hope we can get this whole DP thing straightened out, and she and Mark Dean Shwab can share a gurney.


And I don't want to read any stupid posts with a "What do you expect in Florida" attitude. That's bullshit.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

3. God almighty!

[Hoof Hearted]

4. Good God! WHY was it not reported for ten hours is my first question.

2. Where the hell are the poor kids parents?

[Danger Mouse]

5. That woman is sick.

WTF?

[TwilightGardener]

6. Lord God, that's horrific.

[Schema Thing]

7. I'll bet you a dollar her religious beliefs were the motivating factor

A mom cuts off her baby's arms? A woman drowns her children? A mother bashes her four kids heads in with a large rock?

They'd all been conversing (wo)mano a mano with the good lord.

[salin]

8. less about religion and more about mental imbalance

"hearing voices" is more a sign of mental imbalance, than of religiosity. Given that if the ill person is religious that can become the manifestation (in the mind) of the "voices". Personally I wouldn't blame "religion as the motivating factor" - as much as a mental illness. In that case if it weren't religion it would have manifested itself as something else (like a dog - per Son of Sam).

[Schema Thing]

9. The voices in the head of a religious person

especially one fed from a young age a steady diet of old testament violence, are particularly mean-spirited and prone to dramatic violence.

As an atheist (who was a fundamentalist Christian for my first 36 years), any voices I might hear in the future will have to work VERY hard to convince me they are anyone but myself.

Of course anyone can become mentally ill. I just think religious people are far more likely to coddle their illness in a blanket of "spiritual experience" and rationalize their feelings/thoughts as being normal reactions to this satan controlled, mean old world's persecution of them. And also more likely to believe a voice is that of God. You don't ignore or disobey God.

About five Texas women in about five years, killers of their own children all, seem to back up my theory.

[salin]

11. perhaps, but I am thinking more of the few people I have known

who have had schizophrenia - none of whom were terribly religious or ascribed the voices in the head to religion, rather than to sensational news stories.

[nonconformist]

10. My God... that poor poor boy

The poor thing is autistic and mute, and now his sight has been robbed from him in a horrible, traumatic and painful way... and by a family member to boot.

:cry: