Dad Uses Box Cutter To Carve Pentagram In 6 Year Old’s Back Because 12-12-12 Is ‘Holy Day’

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A Texas father is in police custody after he told 911 operators he carved a large pentagram in his six-year old son’s back because today, December 12, 2012 is a “holy day,” marked by the numbers 12-12-12.

“I shed some innocent blood,” Brent Troy Bartel, 39, says to police in the audio recording of his 911 call, below.

“What do you mean, sir?” the 911 operator asks, as David Edwards at the Raw Story reports:

“I inscribed a pentagram on my son,” the man explains.

“Why did you do that?” the operator presses.

“Because it’s a holy day,” the caller replies before hanging up.

Officers dispatched to Bartel’s home discovered the 6-year-old boy shivering without a shirt.

“There was a large pentagram carved into his back which covered the majority of his back,” a news release from Richland Hills police Sgt. Nathan Stringer said. “The child was found cold and shivering in the cold so officers wrapped him in a jacket.”

Investigators later confiscated a box cutter, which they suspected was used to carve the religious symbol.

The Huffington Post adds:

“The father’s call to 911 was placed at 12:10 a.m., just minutes after the day 12-12-12 began,” writes NBC News. “[However] the date is not known to have any holy or religious significance.”

Nonetheless, the news agency notes that the date, along with 12-12-12, has “drawn attention from numerologists and those concerned with doomsday prophecy.”

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According to a press release from the Richland Hills Police Department, the child’s mother also called 911. In her call, which was reportedly placed at a neighbor’s house at about the same time, she said that her husband was “hurting” the boy.

WFAA writes:

When officers arrived, they found the boy standing in the home, shivering in pajama pants without a shirt. The pentagram covered much of the boy’s back, [police] said. Investigators found a box cutter nearby and believe it was what Bartel used.

“This is something you normally hear about in the movies, not something you expect to see,” police spokesman Sgt. Nathan Stringer said.

 

Image: Richland Hills Police