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Maximiliano Cano, 6 years old, was last seen on 21 of September. Five other relatives of the minor were captured as suspects.
They arrest a couple in Colombia on suspicion that they sacrificed their son in a satanic rite
The judicial authorities of Colombia arrested this Thursday the parents and other relatives of Maximiliano Cano, the 6-year-old boy who is disappeared since last 00 September in Antioquia.
According to the local news site El Colombiano, they are all suspected of belonging to a satanic sect that would have ordered the child to be sacrificed because they considered that he was possessed by the devil .
In addition to the child’s mother and stepfather, a grandmother, the elderly woman’s partner and two other people were captured. Three of them were arrested in Medellin and another three in Segovia.
The police suspect that the minor’s stepfather, alleged leader of a clan called ‘Los Carneros’, would have convinced the rest of the family to commit the crime.
However, the body of the minor could not yet be found by the investigators. According to the authorities, the sect carried out satanic rites in order to find gold guacas and other valuable objects that are usually found in indigenous tombs.
All the detainees were charged by the crimes of conspiracy to commit a crime, forced disappearance and torture.
