(And herein introduces a new topic group, for twisted shit that I probably shouldn't be propagating to other eyes.)

Serious "ick" factor ahead at the link:

Baboon eats baby in front of mom

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Baboon eats baby in front of mom
DAN DHLAMINI

A YOUNG mother this week watched helplessly as a baboon
snatched and ripped open the skull of her only child and ate
his brain.

The mother of the dead child, Lettie Goitsimang Tukane (34),
told City Press the baboon sank its powerful canines into
the skull of her three-month-old son, removed the brain,
climbed up a high telephone pole and ate the brain before
fleeing into nearby bush.

The bizarre and tragic incident occurred at a cattle post in
the remote North West village of Madipelesa outside
Pampierstad, where Tukane and fianci Oupa Goeiman live.

Tukane said her son Neo was sleeping in a bed in one of the
rooms while she was busy washing dishes in another room when
she heard his screams.

She said when she rushed outside she saw a huge baboon
carrying Neo under one of its arms. She tried to scare it
off, but the baboon was aggressive and it wanted to attack
her too.

"It happened so quickly that by the time neighbours came and
threw stones and set dogs on it, it had already eaten the
brain and scuttled into the bush. I could not believe my
eyes when I picked up Neo.

"He was still breathing and his skull was opened and he was
bleeding profusely," said Tukane.

She said Neo was her only child and she hoped he would live
because her other children died of natural causes before
they reached one year.

She said after the funeral they would contact a sangoma to
check if the incident was not witchcraft related.

The incident, the first of its kind in the area, has shocked
people in the North West, especially in the areas of
Seoding, Sekhing, Madipelesa and Pampierstad.

Petrus Malgas, who tried to help rescue little Neo, told
City Press that when he and other neighbours threw stones at
the baboon, it climbed up the telephone pole and
nonchalantly devoured the child's brain before it fled into
the bush.

Saomeng Phalatse of Sekhing said the whole episode boiled
down to witchcraft, because it was unheard of that a baboon
would eat a human being.

"Although some people with western beliefs do not believe
it, we know for a fact that African chemistry works in these
areas.

"A few years ago in Taung an inyanga, through her medicines,
caused a young man to find himself with his bed and all on
the top of his roof.

"The incident was even shown on Bop TV. Why should we not
believe Tukane was bewitched?" said Gomotseng Badirwang,
clutching her two-month-old baby.

North West senior environmental officer Richard Gasealahwe
said chacma baboons were prevalent in the area, including at
the Blue Pool heritage site near Buxton in Taung.

Gasealahwe dismissed suggestions of witchcraft, saying the
baboon might have thought the child was one of the small
goats which Goeiman kept in one of the rooms at the cattle
post.

"The area is teeming with chacma baboons, which are normally
tame.  However, when they are very hungry they become
aggressive and they eat small goats, starting with the
brain.

"They also rip off and eat the goats' udders and would also
go to residential areas looking for food," Gasealahwe.

William Mekgwe of Nature Conservation said the baboon that
killed little Neo was an old male, "Rotwe", which had been
rejected by the troop.

He said they had arranged with their problem animal control
unit to trap the baboon because it would go back to the
house again, hoping to get small goats.