A father and son were arrested in Newark, New Jersey for the desecration of human remains, reports Associated Press.
Three human skulls were found in caldrons within a building basement owned by the father. The skulls and other animal remains found are suspected to be the residue of cult rituals allegedly associated with the practice of “Palo Mayombe.”
Palo Mayombe is a West African religion, brought to Cuba by slaves in the 19th Century and more recently to the United States through Cuban immigration.
In the United States since the 1980s there have been often bizarre claims made about human sacrifices supposedly associated with “Satanism“. However, these claims were later proven false. At times religions such as Palo Mayombe have been falsely cited or impugned in the resulting hysteria.
But human sacrifice is not a part of Palo Mayombe. A cemetery was acknowledged by Newark police as the probable source of the body parts regarding this recent arrest, not people from the neighborhood.
It seems likely that the Newark father and son were perhaps involved in their own idiosyncratic composite religion, which included aspects of Palo Mayombe.
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