12-12-12 is a "holy day" so
this guy carved a pentagram in his 6-year-old son's back.
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A Richland Hills man allegedly carved a pentagram into his 6-year-old son’s back with a box cutter before smearing blood around the doorway to his home early Wednesday morning.
Brent Troy Bartel, 39, called 911 to report the incident and matter-of-factly told the dispatcher that he’d “shed some innocent blood” because “it’s a holy day.” Police arrested Bartel on a charge of aggravated assault on a family member with a deadly weapon. He was being held at Quad-Cities Jail in North Richland Hills in lieu of $500,000 bail.
“There have been very few things in my career that would render me speechless. This was one of them,” said Sgt. Nathan Stringer, a Richland Hills police spokesman. “I don’t know what would possess somebody to hold down a 6-year-old and carve something into him.”
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