The Brazilian man who pushed dozens of sewing needles into his two-year-old stepson says he wanted to kill him to spite his wife, say media reports.

巴西媒体报道，将数十根缝衣针刺入两岁继子体内的巴西男子称，他意图杀死孩子以报复他的妻子。

The boy was drugged with wine before needles were inserted by his stepdad

Roberto Carlos Magalhaes, 30, made his confession¹ in a telephone interview from jail with Globo Television.

The boy is recovering after surgery to remove the needles, which came perilously危机四伏地，充满危险地 close to his heart.

Mr Magalhaes said he got the boy drunk on wine before inserting the needles, up to three times in a month.

"It was a crazy idea. I mixed wine with water and had him drink it. He drank it and passed out昏倒，失去知觉, then I inserted the needles," he told Globo's Fantastico programme.

"It was to get back at the boy's mother. I thought the needles would work their way through his body and kill the boy. It was a way to kill without anyone discovering."

'Ritual killing³'

X-rays revealed some 30 needles lodged⁴ throughout the child's body.

Four needles were removed by surgery on Friday, and doctors are planning more operations to extract needles from the boy's abdomen⁵腹部，腹腔, intestines⁶肠，内脏 and bladder膀胱.

Brazilian police said last week the stepfather had confessed to sticking the needles into the toddler幼童 with the help of another man and a woman.

Police said Mr Magalhaes, a bricklayer砖匠, told them his mistress had urged him to ritually仪式上地 kill the child to take revenge on对……实施报复 his wife.

The boy's mother had taken him to hospital in the north-eastern state of Bahia, suffering from stomach pains and vomiting⁷.

She suspected the child had been the victim of a black magic ritual after she found suspicious objects in the home she shared with Mr Magalhaes - her husband of six months - and her six children.