WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Eric Sawyer, 38, was arrested after police found his 1-year-old nephew Brandon Cole wrapped in bloody sheets in the laundry room of a home on the 5800 block of Orchard Way in West Palm Beach. When police arrived at the home in response to a possible dog attack, Sawyer stated he had caused the injuries to the child. “I thought the baby was possessed, so I had to cut it out of him,” he told poilce. Sawyer also admitted that he had been thinking of stabbing the boy for days, and eventually used a butcher knife he found in the kitchen to inflict numerous stab wounds to the infants abdomen in an attempt to “release the evil spirits“.

Sawyer is known to have mental problems and has also been known to quit taking his medications. He is being held without bond on a first-degree murder charge.

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