Cannibal Cult Tortured Boys

(Brno, Czech Republic) Six reported members of a religious cult, the Grail Movement, have been convicted of psychologically and physically torturing children. Each received between five and 10 years in prison.

The sick abuse and torture were exposed when a neighbor installed a baby monitor to keep check on a newborn. Fortunately, the monitor also picked up signals from an identical monitor in the torture house next door. The signals indicated abuse and torture.

A cannibal cult mother who tortured her son in a locked cellar while relatives skinned him and forced him to eat his own flesh has been jailed for nine years.

Klara Mauerova, 31 - a member of a sinister religious cult and her sister Katerina led the sickening torture of her eight-year-old son Ondrej and his ten year-old brother Jakub.

A court in Brno in Czech Republic heard how relatives partially skinned Ondrej and forced him to eat his own flesh.

The judge also jailed Katerina, 35, for ten years for her role in the sickening abuse.

The two boys had told judges how their mother and relatives had stubbed cigarettes out on their bare skin, whipped them with belts, and tried to drown them. They were also sexually abused and forced to cut themselves with knives.

The terrified youngsters said they were kept in cages or handcuffed to tables and made to stand in their own urine for days.

The sick sisters - both members of weird religious cult the Grail Movement - refused to reveal why they tortured the brothers.

But state prosecutor Zuzana Zamoravcova said: 'Their aim was to make the boys blindly serve their religious goals.'

Judge Pavel Goth said as he sentenced the women: 'Their aim was to create a person with a completely broken will. Ondrej and Jakub were repeatedly psychologically and physically tyrannised and held in locked rooms.'

Also convicted and sentenced to five years in prison was 34-year-old Barbara Skrlova. Skrlova lived with the Mauerova sisters during the time of the abuse and escaped to Norway when an investigation was launched.

As previously reported, Skrlova posed as a 12-year-old boy and then a 13-year-old girl to escape notice in Norway. Her impersonations weren't effective and she was arrested and returned to the Czech Republic.

Other members sentenced were 28-year-old Hana Basova, 25-year-old Jan Skrla, and a man named Jan Turek. They each received between five and seven years in prison.

To be fair, the website for the Grail Movement has distanced itself from the actions of the Mauerova group, claiming that, instead, the abusers were members of:

"[A] group headed by Joseph Skria who was banned from the Grail Movement in 1996. This fact came out in the trial and is a matter of public record. Thus attempts by the press to connect the Grail Movement with the crimes committed in the Czech Republic are unfortunate and incorrect."

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