Bad Breeders posted this bizarre story from Arizona where a 2-year-old was found by authorities to be so malnourished he only weighed 12 pounds. 31-year-old Edmundo Munoz, little Santiago Smoot’s biological father, gained custody of the boy from the birth mother for unspecified reasons. When he and his girlfriend Morgan Lege took over caring for the then five-month-old Santiago, the boy had been healthy and normal.

Munoz admitted withholding food from the boy because he claimed the boy would over eat until he would vomit. Worse, he admitted to hiding food in the hospital, because he thought the hospital was feeding him too much. Trench thinks this is some weird cult thing, I say the bastard was trying to torture the child to death for kicks.

KPHO has a video report embedded in the story page which reveals, among other things, that Munoz and Lege weren’t skipping any meals themselves. Maybe they’ll find out how it feels to be have food withheld from them when they’re getting punked out in prison.