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NEWS ABOUT: mutilation

mutilation stories: 6 news summaries

 Taiwan Teen Severs 
 Dad's Hands Over Abuse 

17-year-old bought knife, sliced both father's wrists

Sep 29, 09 7:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Police in Taiwan arrested a 17-year-old boy who chopped off his father's hands, allegedly after suffering years of physical abuse. The boy used a knife cut through both of his father's wrists while he slept, although doctors succeeded in reattaching them. Local media reported that the boy suffered frequent beatings... More »

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crime • Taiwan • child abuse • knife • mutilation

(Newser) - Hamid Karzai's battle for reelection on Thursday is facing a significant hurdle: threats by the Taliban to mutilate anyone who shows up at the polls. Insurgents are strongest in Pashtun regions, normally a Karzai stronghold, and in one town a group of Taliban fighters told citizens anyone who votes will... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • Hamid Karzai • Pashtun • Helmand province • voter intimidation • mutilation • Afghanistan election

Teen Suspect Arrested in Fla. Cat Killings

Murders spawned 1,000-member Facebook group

Jun 14, 09 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Miami police arrested a teenager today in connection with a high-profile series of cat-killings, the Miami Herald reports. Accused of mutilating and killing more than a dozen cats, Tyler Hayes Weinman, 18, was charged with animal cruelty, improperly disposing of an animal body, and burglary. Residents alerted police to Weinman,... More »

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Florida • killer • animal cruelty • teenager • mutilation • cats

Death Row Inmate Plucks Eye, Eats It

Killer of own family getting mental care
he had 'begged for'

Jan 9, 09 7:00 PM CST
(AP) - A Texas death row inmate with a history of mental problems pulled out his only good eye and told authorities he ate it, the AP reports. Thomas was treated at an East Texas medical center after the incident last month. He was transferred and remains at a prison psychiatric facility... More »

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Texas • death row • eyes • mutilation

23 Years in a North Korean Prison Camp

Escapee, born in prison, tells of routine, stunning torture

Dec 11, 08 7:27 AM CST
(Newser) - There are 14,431 North Korean defectors living in South Korea, but only one, Shin Dong-hyuk, who escaped from a Northern prison camp. In an interview with the Washington Post, Shin describes the daily horrors of life inside Kim Jong-Il's gulags, from fire torture to mutilation. He committed no crime—... More »

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North Korea • torture • South Korea • escape • Koreans • political prisoner • mutilation

(Newser) - Saddam Hussein’s body was mutilated after his execution, says a guard present at his internment. “There were six stab wounds on his body,” two of them to his back, the Iraqi told the London Times. The guard said 300 people witnessed the desecrated body, but Iraqi officials... More »

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Iraq • Saddam Hussein • corpse • execution • burial • mutilation

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