A judge in South Africa sentenced a man to four life sentences in prison on Tuesday for the murder of his nieces and nephews – whose ears, he confessed, he planned to sell at a high price to a witch doctor for use in potions.
Southern African countries have spent much of the last decade fighting violence fueled by witch doctor, or traditional herbalist, demands for body parts to use in their ceremonies and potions. In nations like Tanzania and Malawi, the body parts of albino people can fetch as much as $75,000 for a whole body, according to United Nations studies. Tanzania has thelargest albino population on the continent.
In South Africa, 32-year-old Ben Zimele Mbhele pleaded guilty to killing his two nieces and two nephews, aged between four and 12, last year after meeting a man who told him that the children’s ears would sell at a high price to a witch doctor that he knew. Mbhele reportedly told police initially that he had to kill the children because they “were haunting him and that it was a satanic act,” according to South Africa’s the Times. His story changed when the court found that Mbhele took out a life insurance policy on the four children shortly before they were found dead, and collected 60,000 South African rand (about $5,000) total on the four children.
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Joe I just saw this Tree Hugging Democrat post this on her FB Page and read through the nonsense and saw where Jake Day threw Wicomico County under the Bus! You can go to her FB page and screen capture it yourself for a good story.
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Kerrie Jones Bunting
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Huh. WHO knew this could happen??? Salisbury, Maryland Jacob Day Jack Heath Bob Culver Wicomico County Executive Mylar and latex balloons (and other trash) are dangerous and deadly. Why wont the Councils entertain a discussion on my proposed balloon release ban? Yes, this incidence was a random trash but you know see that what I told you about mylar is true. Balloons Blow
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Jacob Day said... You would need to contact the City and County Councils for that discussion. My recollection was that the City Council told you they were willing to discuss it. I hope you get that conversation! Good luck!
Kerrie Jones Bunting said... They said they wanted to wait until the County made it's decision. The County Council decided that "they were not interested" in pursuing the discussion. No word from the City Council on them taking up the discussion themselves to make a judgement. Brick walls all around.
Jacob Day said... Kerrie Jones Bunting I would take the news from the County Council back to the City Council. They would have no way of knowing that unless you share it with them. Ask them to take the lead now that the county government won’t.
And they think they can run a country.
ReplyDelete$75,000! I don't blame him
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ReplyDelete6:49 PM Most of us don't have a clue how the rest of the world operates. We live in our own reality bubble thinking others are intelligent. The government likes it that way because if we found out how much better it is somewhere else they would be screwed.
ReplyDelete"Friends, Romans, countrymen, Lend me your ears!"
ReplyDeleteHow quick we are to judge other countries when we have many psychopathic killers in ours who kill for fun sport and/or for free
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