Teenage girl cuts off her playmate’s fingers with an axe for sacrifice to Satan

Czech Republic : Alena Skrivankova, 15, from the Czech Republic, took Jitka Svehlova, 10, to a nearby wood after telling the girl's parents they were going out to play.

A teenager cut off her playmate’s fingers with an axe because she wanted to make a sacrifice to Satan

Alena Skrivankova, 15, from the city of Brno in the south of the Czech Republic, had taken Jitka Svehlova, 10, to a nearby wood after telling the girl's parents they were going out to play.

But as soon as they were out of sight she strapped the unwitting girl to a tree and then hacked her fingers off with an axe she had hidden in her backpack.

A police spokesman said: "Somehow the younger girl managed to escape and her horrified parents called the police.

"When officers arrived at the scene they found the older girl sitting on the ground with the axe in one hand and the severed fingers in the other.

"This is a deeply disturbing case."

The girl was taken away for psychiatric assessment.

Her victim is being treated in hospital.