Black Magic Fetus

(Phnom Penh, Cambodia) A 20-year-old man, Hoeung Sreang, was arrested and charged with attempted murder for slicing open his girlfriend's abdomen to retrieve their unborn child for use in a black magic ritual. A witch doctor had told Sreang that a fetus could produce magical powers and make him invisible.

According to police chief Yem Chouengly, Sreang asked his girlfriend to have the fetus surgically removed, but she refused. Consequently,

"[H]e tricked her to coming to a guest house room with him, and when they were alone he held her down and sliced her open with a knife to try to remove the foetus from her stomach himself," Chouengly said by phone.

He said the girl was rescued when people heard her screams, and before Sreang could extract the foetus.

Although Rong may not lose the baby, she is in serious condition in hospital with a deep slash wound to her abdomen.

"The boy who did this is an idiot. He believes in the ancient superstition that a mummified foetus would have made him invisible and let him commit whatever crimes he wanted without being caught," Chouengly said.

I'd agree. Anyone who wants to rip a fetus out of a woman is an idiot. Unfortunately, it happens all the time.