CAPE ARGUS
The decapitated body of Lee
Heinrich Adams, 15, was found on Thursday evening in an abandoned
building in Ravensmead which was once Florida Primary School. Picture:
Willem Law.
Cape Town - A 17-year-old has been arrested for
allegedly beheading 15-year-old Lee Heinrich Adams from Ravensmead as
part of a suspected satanic ritual – Lee’s head was found buried in the
boy’s front garden on Saturday night.
The body was found lying in the corner of one
of the classrooms of the derelict Florida Primary School building about
120m from Lee’s aunt’s home, where he lived.
His head was discovered two days later buried at the 17-year-old boy’s home, about 1.5km from the school.
Police spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel André Traut
said: “The beheaded body was discovered at Third Avenue in Ravensmead
on Thursday night at around 10.15pm.”
Traut added that, after a thorough
investigation, the 17-year-old had been arrested. “A search at the
residence of the suspect led to the discovery of the head buried in the
front garden on Saturday night.”
He said the police suspect it was part of a satanic ritual.
Lee Heinrich Adams, who was found after being decapitated in a ritual in Ravensmead
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“Paraphernalia suggesting that Satanism is a possible motive was found at the residence of the suspect.”
Those who claimed to have witnessed the head
being removed from the front garden by the police said they also saw two
headless cats at the crime scene, but the police have not confirmed
this.
When the Cape Argus visited the abandoned
primary school to view the site where the body was found, blood was
spattered on the walls of one of the old classrooms.
Lee’s mother Gaynor Adams said the last time she saw her son
was Thursday night when she had sent him to the ATM to withdraw money.
“He never came back,” she said.
“The next day I hear from someone in the street
that a body was found at the school and she identified him as a boy
from the same street we live in – not knowing I was his mother.”
After Lee went missing on Thursday, Adams went
to report the matter to the police and on Saturday afternoon it was
discovered that the headless body was dressed in the same clothes Lee
had last been seen in.
“I knew it was him, it was my son. I can’t even
describe what was going through my head, shock, pain – he was my eldest
son,” she said.
His aunt Anne van Schalkwyk, whose house is
across from the school, said: “I saw people at the school with dogs and
torches, but I didn’t know it was him until I got a call from the police
and heard my sister crying in the background.”
Community Police Forum spokeswoman Zelda
Tarentaal said, “We have never had something like this happen before and
we have never had satanic things in this area.
”This building is a breeding ground for crime, for the past 10 years we have been asking for it to be removed,” said Tarentaal.
A resident and relative of the deceased, Pastor Errol Abrahams, agreed that the building had become a crime den.
“Gangs do their recruitment there and people
are being raped there. The 24-hour security is not helpful because at
night it’s very dark there and there is no fencing around it,” he said.
Cosatu regional secretary Tony Ehrenreich, who
visited the Adams family, said: “Whether this is satanic or
dysfunctional, children are losing track of social values. ”
Ehrenreich said if the building was not demolished by the weekend Cosatu and Ravensmead residents would tear it down.
Lee’s family said they couldn’t explain why he had fallen victim to such a gruesome crime.
“He was a good boy who loved his music, he loved joking around,” said Van Schalkwyk.
The suspect is due in court on Monday.
Recent satanist killings
* Two friends were assaulted, doused with
petrol and set alight in an alleged satanic ritual on a hill in Joburg
in October 2011.
Kirsty Theologo, 18, later died in hospital. Her friend, who was 14 at the time, survived.
Linden Wagner, Harvey Isha, Robin Harwood, and
Courtney Daniels are on trial for murdering Theologo, attempting to
murder her friend, and for assault with intent to do grievous bodily
harm. All have pleaded not guilty.
Wagner told the court they had a knife, a Bible
and candles for the ritual. Theologo and her friend were made to drink
alcohol laced with brake fluid.
Wagner told the court he and the co-accused had been prepared to sell their souls on that day.
Two other accused, Jeremy King and Lester
Moody, confessed to the crime and were each sentenced to 17 years in
prison, five of which were suspended.
* In another case this year, also in Joburg, a
15-year-old girl appeared in court in connection with stabbing a fellow
pupil to death as part of an alleged satanic ritual
The teenager confessed to stabbing Keamogetswe Sefularo so she could move up the ranks of a satanic cult.
She said Sefularo had posed a threat to the cult because she knew its members and their practices.
The girl told the court the rituals included visiting graveyards and members cutting themselves and sucking each other’s blood.
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