{"id":9489,"date":"2021-11-24T16:33:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T16:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2021-11-24T15:46:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T15:46:34","slug":"mozambique-prm-arrests-alleged-mastermind-of-gruesome-infanticide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/mozambique\/all-news\/mozambique-prm-arrests-alleged-mastermind-of-gruesome-infanticide","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: PRM arrests alleged mastermind of gruesome infanticide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in Zamb\u00e9zia province have detained the individual who allegedly \u201cgave the order\u201d for the head of a two-year-old child to be cut off in the district of Gil\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The arrest was confirmed by provincial PRM spokesperson Miguel Caetano.<\/p>\n<p>The man is now in police custody thanks to the work of the PRM and SERNIC, and will be brought to court to be held criminally accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The hideous crime took place a few days ago in the Gil\u00e9 district, where the man cut off the head of his daughter, allegedly for use in rituals to create wealth.<\/p>\n<p>On November 8, R\u00e1dio Nova Paz Quelimane reported that two individuals had been arrested by the PRM in Zamb\u00e9zia and charged with aggravated homicide of a two-year-old child, the daughter of one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Police spokesperson Miguel Caetano on November 8 told how the macabre murder took place on Saturday, November 6, in the district of Gil\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s father and an accomplice, he said, took his daughter into a local forest, where they cut off the head of the child with a machete, so as to sell it to a supposed buyer for a million meticais. The pair then buried the girl\u2019s body in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>The child\u2019s mother, suspicious of her husband\u2019s behaviour, went to the forest and, seeing traces of the crime, contacted the police, who arrested the two murderers in possession of the child\u2019s head.<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Caetano said that the crime had shocked the corporation, who were in pursuit of the alleged buyer and mastermind of the crime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/novaradiopaz\/posts\/2412401965559327\"><b>Facebook Post click here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Mozambique. The Police of the Republic of Mozambique (PRM) in Zamb\u00e9zia province have detained the individual who allegedly \u201cgave the order\u201d for the head of a two-year-old child to be cut off in the district of Gil\u00e9. The arrest was confirmed by provincial PRM spokesperson Miguel Caetano. 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