Zombie #6 - Father eats son's eyes.
This is an older story from 2009 but I think it still belongs on here.
On April 28, 2009 Angelo Mendoza attacked his 4 year old son.
Court documents said neighbors checked on Mendoza's son, Angelo Jr., after they noticed the father acting nervously and fleeing from his east Bakersfield apartment in his wheelchair. Inside, they found little Angelo naked and bleeding. Police said the boy had numerous bites to his hands and his eyes were swollen shut. Doctors said the boy's left eye and muscle were completely missing. His other eye was mutilated beyond repair. The boy told them, "My daddy ate my eyes out." Rodriguez said meanwhile Mendoza approached him at a neighbor's vacant house down the street.
Rodriguez said the boy's father wheeled himself into the front yard and asked Rodriguez to play with him and a pet dog. He was wearing boxers and a sweater. When Rodriguez refused, Mendoza got off his wheelchair and dragged himself into a back yard, where he found an ax.
By then Mendoza had stripped naked. He chained himself to a tree in the back yard and began hacking at his leg with a pickax while yelling incoherently.
"He told me to look into the sun and pray with him. I was kinda scared for a minute," said Rodriguez.
Then Rodriguez jumped on Mendoza and wrestled the ax away.
"As soon as I grabbed the ax he tried to bite me, and I had to hold him down with my knee. There was dry blood around his mouth. I don't know if it was his own, but I'm pretty sure it was his son's now that I hear the story," said Rodriguez.
The police report said Mendoza appeared to be under the influence of PCP. Rodriguez said had he known about little Angelo, the outcome would have been different.
I cannot find anything saying whether the man was drug tested after the incident. I can't imagine what this poor boy is going through now, he was definitely old enough to be able to remember this and I'm so sorry for that. I hope he was adopted by a good family and isn't still in custody of Child Protective Services.