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Brazilian Roberto Carlos Magalhaes repeatedly stuck sewing needles into his 2-year-old former stepson, after drugging him with watered wine so he wouldn’t cry. And by “stuck” I mean INSERTED all the way and left them there. His new girlfriend (Angelina Ribeiro dos Santos) helped him come up with the idea, and Magalhaes “told detectives that dos Santos would enter into trances and give him commands to insert the needles”. Yes, their love was so healthy and normal that they tried to kill a toddler to get revenge on the child’s mother.

Their punishment should include having 30 or more rusty sewing needles stuck in their own bodies. Without wine to dull the pain.

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SICK:  The pope telling Africans that using condoms wouldn’t stop the spread of AIDS, and would in fact make the problem worse. 

SICK:  Excommunicating doctors in Brazil, who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old girl, after she was raped repeatedly by her stepfather. 

The girl’s mother was also expelled from the church; the rapist was not. (Economist)

I have no words.

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