The horror of the story is compounded all the more, when after being arrested, the man confessed to the murder, telling the police that he murdered his sister as part of a 'get rich scheme' that required him to remove certain body parts, one assumes for some sort of ghoulish ritual.
It appears the region of Malawi where this awful deed occurred, is in dire need of education where the treatment of women is concerned, with regular reports of domestic violence and girls being 'defiled' according to the report at nyasatimes.com.
It's also clear that the belief that human body parts can be of some use in rituals to bring wealth and success is unacceptably held in many communities across the world, as our readers will recall after our recent reports of the trade in body parts in Thailand in which a 'supernatural monk' has been implicated. However, one wonders if the monk in question is more interested in the jewelry that may be adorning the corpses rather than any imaginary magical powers that may be transferred from dismembered cadavers.
Body of Christ anyone?
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