Bricklayer Roberto Carlos Magalhaes told police inspector Helder Fernandes Santana that one of the women, the one who “went into a trance” would “command him to stick the needles in the boy’s body.” The two held repeated sessions over several weeks, and maybe longer, during which they inserted needles into the child.
The child, meanwhile, has been airlifted to the heart unit of a major hospital in northeastern Brazil Thursday because two of the needles are close to his heart, but it was not immediately clear when doctors might be able to remove them.
Doctors located 42 needles in the boy, who was in stable condition after a 240-mile flight to the hospital in the coastal city of Salvador that has a special heart unit.
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