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Mum 'beheaded son after stabbing him 12 times because he wanted to be a girl'

Rosana Cândido, 27, and Kacyla Pessoa, 28, are said to have confessed. [Mirror]

A mum is accused of beheading her nine-year-old son after stabbing him a dozen times because he told her he wanted to be a girl.

Then she reportedly got her lesbian lover to help her remove all the skin from his face before butchering his body.

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