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An Indonesian woman allegedly drowned her nine-year-old son in the bathtub because she was worried his small penis would harm his future prospects, AFP reports.
"She told police investigators that she killed him as he would have a bleak future with his small penis," Jakarta police spokesman Rikwanto, who goes by one name, told AFP.
"She drowned her son in a bathtub filled with water. She then dressed him and laid him on a bed. After that, she went to a nearby police office to report her crime."
The woman, 38, reportedly told Jakarta police the boy always had a small penis, but after he got circumcised, it appeared even smaller.
Rikwanto said he believes the woman knew exactly what she was doing, but police have ordered a psychiatric evaluation to assess her mental condition.
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 hours later[^][v]#393,922
She was probably afraid of being accused of witchcraft, and penis theft.
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 45 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,932
And somewhere in America, Negi Springfield's mom fills up the bathtub...
Meta !PARAdoxiHw joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,951
@393,922 (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
How could it be stolen if it was still there, just small?
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 15 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,952
@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
Because every time that a penis is stolen, it never actually leaves the body. It's a form of mass hysteria. So maybe a small penised child would be considered cursed or something.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,953
@previous (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
So let me get this straight: the penis is stolen, but without actually being removed from the body? How would you even know if your penis was thus "stolen"?
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,954
@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
You just get a feeling, I'm serious. Then everyone mobs together and burns some woman for being a penis stealing witch.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,955
@previous (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
After she's burned, do they get their penises back?
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,957
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,958
@393,954 (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
So, do they claim that their penis is missing but don't prove it? Or is "stole my penis" some sort of euphemism for "cursed me with impotence"?
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 8 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,960
@previous (E)
It seems that way, but no one ever asks to look.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,961
@393,957 (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
So when the penis remains completely unchanged after said burning, do they at the very least feel a bit dumb?
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 13 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,962
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.
"You just have to be accused of that, and people come after you. We've had a number of attempted lynchings. ... You see them covered in marks after being beaten," Kinshasa's police chief, Jean-Dieudonne Oleko, told Reuters on Tuesday.
Police arrested the accused sorcerers and their victims in an effort to avoid the sort of bloodshed seen in Ghana a decade ago, when 12 suspected penis snatchers were beaten to death by angry mobs. The 27 men have since been released.
"I'm tempted to say it's one huge joke," Oleko said.
"But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it's become tiny or that they've become impotent. To that I tell them, 'How do you know if you haven't gone home and tried it'," he said.
Some Kinshasa residents accuse a separatist sect from nearby Bas-Congo province of being behind the witchcraft in revenge for a recent government crackdown on its members.
"It's real. Just yesterday here, there was a man who was a victim. We saw. What was left was tiny," said 29-year-old Alain Kalala, who sells phone credits near a Kinshasa police station.
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 double-posted this 13 years ago, 31 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,966
@393,964 (Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx)
Its mass hysteria, and not logic based.
Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 22 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,967
@393,958 (E)
I kind of doubt it would be impotence since, in most of the places this happens, people don't live long enough to become impotent.
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 51 seconds later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,968
Meta !PARAdoxiHw replied with this 13 years ago, 7 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,969
@previous (buspup !!x+kkCmnF4)
This sort of thing makes me wonder if Sub-Saharan Africa is reverting to the dark ages, but with modern technology like cars and cell phones.
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 replied with this 13 years ago, 3 minutes later, 8 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,971
@previous (Meta !PARAdoxiHw)
Its so crazy! They're killing, raping, cannibalizing, but also speaking perfect English!
buspup !!x+kkCmnF4 double-posted this 13 years ago, 4 minutes later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#393,972
Also:
He's right, of course. It's hard to overstate the magnitude of the problem in Liberia. Here, rape became a tool of war (just as it did in Bosnia, the Congo and Sri Lanka -- and as it has been as long as there has been war in the world). Estimates vary widely, but between 60 percent and 90 percent of the female population -- women, girls, babies -- was raped at some point between 1989 and 2003, the 14-year stretch of Liberia's brutal civil war. Men and boys were, too. Gang rapes were common. They still are.
Soldiers forced men to rape their daughters in front of others. Mothers were forced to have sex with their sons; sisters, with their brothers. The war made women widows and children orphans. Left to fend for themselves, young girls became vulnerable to sex trafficking and rape. Where there were once stable families, there are now young single moms raising children alone