Published: 2013 October 15 05:30:35 (5194 Views)

A 27-year-old father told cops he had heard voices in his head for weeks telling him to drink blood.

He was in his rented shack in Ivory Park, Tembisa, Ekurhuleni, with his wife and his 4-year-old daughter when, it seems, he could no longer resist.

The man's wife (37) told the cops that the man allegedly grabbed a knife and stabbed the child in her neck where she was playing.

Then he clutched her body tightly to him, biting at the wound in her neck and sucking her blood.

The wife ran to ask for help and attracted the attention of cops in a police van.

"Help! Help! My husband is eating my child!" they heard her scream.

Together they raced back to the shack.

The child was rushed to the Tembisa Hospital, where she is in a critical condition.

The father was arrested and at the holding cells he took off all his clothes and when asked questions, he wouldn't talk much.

Police spokeswoman Constable Sharon Mahamba told Daily Sun: "He said he has been hearing strange voices for two weeks.

"He also said men in black and red gowns visited him and told him to find and drink human blood.

"His daughter became an easy target. He said when the voices finally persuaded him he jumped on his child."

Mahamba said the man is expected to appear in Tembisa Magistrates Court to face charges of attempted murder.

The names of the father, mother and the child have been withheld to protect the identity of the child.

- Politicsweb

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