A Mexican woman believed to be a witch with cartel ties, was killed after she tried to snatch an 18-month-old out his parents' arms with the stated intent of killing the child as sacrifice to the patron saint of cartels.
Before Maria Guadalupe R.M., 33, tried to kidnap the child, she had made it known to her nephew, also the father of the child, that she believed a dead family member had been reincarnated as his son, reported local newspaper Norte Digital.
Sunday, she broke into her relatives' Ciudad Juarez home as her nephew slept with his wife and son and tried to take the child by force.
The nephew, identified as Carlos Gabriel C.R., 23, fought back with a baseball bat and killed her.
Maria Guadalupe had previously asked her nephew to give his son to her and stated she intended to offer the child as a sacrifice to Santa Muerte, the patron saint of the Mexican cartels.
Guadalupe was known to be a witch and practice satanic worship in her home in Juarez, Mexico-- just across the border from El Paso, Texas, according to Mexican media.
She also had ties to the notorious street gang Los Mexicles, the armed goons for the Sinaloa drug cartel, formerly run by drug kingpin El Chapo Guzman, who is imprisoned in the US, Mexican authorities confirm.
They add Maria Guadalupe sold drugs and took part of rituals and sacrifices Santa Muerte on the gangs behalf.
'Witch' killed after she tried to sacrifice toddler to cartel saint
An alleged witch is killed as she tried to kidnap a toddler to offer him as a sacrifice to the cartel patron saint Santa Muerte near the the US-Mexico border.
