The doctors who were looking after him said that the boy was brought to the cardiac specialist surgeon in the hospital of Salvador, located at the main city of the Bahia state. The boy was first hospitalized in Barreiras town which was nearer to his village on Sunday. From there he was shifted to the Salvador hospital.

Earlier the X-rays reports shows that there are around 50 needles struck much inside the toddler’s body including the torso, legs and neck. But, a careful examination shows that there are 42 needles pierce to the body and some are even very close to the vital organs also.

On Wednesday, 30 years old Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, the boy’s stepfather who was a labourer was arrested. The police said to the AFP that the boy’s stepfather has confessed that he has inserted the needles into the boy’s body one by one during black magic rites.

The police said that Magalhaes has done this to take revenge, to get back his wife. The man’s mistress has advised him to kill the child by a macabre ritual. So in each weekend, the man used to take the boy to a woman named Angelina who used to do black magic. And, she has ordered the man to prick the sewing needles into the child’s body.

In last weekend, the child starts vomiting after one of the needles perforated his lung, and also complains stomach pain to his mother, Maria Souza Santos who was 30 year old maid. So, the mother took him to the Barreiras hospital where she came to know about the needles pierce in her child. She said that she doesn’t know how the needles got into the child’s body. But, she told to the reporters that she has found some objects used in black magic in her home, including a bottle of cachaca rum.

The doctors get puzzled how to treat the boy and planned to remove the needles. They said that some of the needles can’t be taken out as there is high risk. On late Wednesday, the doctors find two needles in left ventricle of boy’s heart which makes the surgery very complicated, so they shift the boy to the cardiac specialized hospital in Salvador on Thursday morning.

Since the boy is in conscious state but in a very serious condition.