[QUOTE]A Pakistani man has been arrested on suspicion of cannibalism when the head of a newborn baby was found at his home - three years after he was jailed for the same offence.
Police on Monday raided the house in a remote village in Punjab province after neighbours complained of a foul smell and found the head of the two-day-old baby inside.
Householder Mohammad Arif admitted eating the child after his brother stole the body from a graveyard in Darya Khan village, around 300km south of Islamabad, officers said.
Arif and his brother Farman Ali were arrested for eating human corpses in the same village in April 2011 and served two years in prison, in a case that shocked Pakistan.
"Arif has been arrested and he has confessed that his brother brought the dead body of the newborn from the nearby graveyard," Ameer Abdullah, police chief of Bhakkar district where the village is located, told AFP.
"Arif told police that both of them later cooked the dead body and ate it."
There is no specific law against cannibalism in Pakistan's penal code, so as in the 2011 case Arif has been charged with desecrating a dead body and public order offences.
In the earlier case police found the body of a 24-year-old woman who had recently died of cancer at the men's house -- minus a leg, which they had eaten.
A hunt is under way to find Ali, Abdullah said, while Arif will undergo psychiatric tests.
Zafar Iqbal, a police official in Darya Khan police station, where Arif is being held, told AFP that the men's wives and family members had left them some years ago and both were living in the house in isolation.
"The neighbours complained to police of a foul stench and police raided the house immediately. We arrested him after discovering a head of a baby. Arif has admitted his crime," Iqbal said.[/QUOTE]
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[B]The brother of the man arrested for cannibalism is also charged for the same crime[/B]
[QUOTE]Pakistani police have arrested a second man suspected along with his brother of eating a newborn baby whose head was found at their home, officials said.
Farman Ali was detained on Tuesday, a day after police arrested his brother Mohammad Arif following the grisly discovery at their house in a remote district in Punjab province.
The pair had been arrested for eating human corpses in the same village in 2011 and served two years in prison in a case that shocked Pakistan.
Arif has told police that Ali stole the body of the two-day-old child from a graveyard in Darya Khan village, about 300 kilometres south of Islamabad, before they cooked and ate it.
Ameer Abdullah, police chief of Bhakkar district where the village is located, told AFP that Ali was detained on Tuesday and the brothers had been brought to court for a remand hearing.
There is no specific offence of cannibalism in Pakistani law, so Abdullah said they had been charged under anti-terrorism laws and for desecrating a human body.
In the 2011 case police found the body of a 24-year-old woman at the men's house - minus a leg, which they had eaten.
The suspects will undergo psychiatric tests, Abdullah said.
Police said that the men's wives and family members had left them some years ago and both were living in the house in isolation.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE]when the head of a newborn baby was found at his home[/QUOTE]
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They dug it up and took it home too.
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So he got less than 3 years previously for a crime against humanity, and again he will get less than three years. Good thing Pakistan ironed out the death penalty for blasphemy law whilst ignoring the loopholes for crimes that are actually degenerate.
to be honest I'm not all that surprised.
[QUOTE=cxcxxxxx;44543165]So he got less than 3 years previously for a crime against humanity, and again he will get less than three years. Good thing Pakistan ironed out the death penalty for blasphemy law whilst ignoring the loopholes for crimes that are actually degenerate.[/QUOTE]
The blasphemy and apostasy laws are actually the cause of some debate since our constitution claims to be secular. There have been heated arguments over whether or not it is still relevant. Honestly if we get rid of the religious nutjobs that have the power to influence government moves we'd get rid of that backwards ass law in a heartbeat.
Well, at least they were digging up dead bodies instead of killing people for the meat. It's kinda nastier in a way, since they're pumped full of chemicals and whatnot.
Not defending the guys, they're clearly sick, but at least no one was murdered.
[QUOTE=cxcxxxxx;44543165]So he got less than 3 years previously for a crime against humanity, and again he will get less than three years. Good thing Pakistan ironed out the death penalty for blasphemy law whilst ignoring the loopholes for crimes that are actually degenerate.[/QUOTE]
I feel fucking awful for the family of the infant, and I also don't consider eating an already dead human a crime against humanity. Disgusting, yeah, horrific, yeah, are they probably a bit mentally ill, yeah.
They aren't a threat to other (alive)people, so there's not much reason to lock them up. Just send them to therapy and have them watched or something.
I won't even hold a baby because in case I do something clumsy. How can a person eat one? Baffling.
I notice that they first tried to eat an adult and only finished the leg. The next time it was a baby and they only had the head for leftovers. They're learning, waste not want not.
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;44546898]...they're learning, waste not want not.[/QUOTE]
Well, at least there's that.
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Interesting to see it's two brothers who have the same weird idea of food.
I'd think one cannibal in the family is a lot?
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