Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Missing Tanzanian Toddler

Recently in Tanzania an albino toddler has gone missing. Police have been suspecting he was murdered and his parts of his body have been used for witchcraft. Two unknown people allegedly came into the house and attacked the boy's mother with machetes and then took the child. This occurred this past Saturday. The regional chief police’s report said, “Two bandits armed with machetes stormed into their kitchen, they hit his mother with machetes and took away the baby.” The father and the husband is now a suspect because he was in the area at that time. They suspect his body parts have been used for witchcraft because 74 or more Albinos have been murdered in Tanzania since the year of 2000. People even sell body parts in Tanzania and according to Yahoo the average going rate for an entire body is 75,000 dollars.


"Tanzanian Albino Toddler Seized in Feared Witchcraft Attack." Yahoo! News. Yahoo!, 17 Feb. 2015. Web. 19 Feb. 2015. <http://news.yahoo.com/tanzanian-albino-toddler-seized-feared-witchcraft-attack-081624542.html>.