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A family cult of cannibals

On March 10, 2007, in a small Czech Republic town, horrific footage of child abuse was broadcast to an unsuspecting man after he installed a video baby monitor in his newborn son’s room to keep watch over him while the baby slept. Instead of receiving video transmissions of his son, however, he received horrific transmissions of a young boy who’d been brutally beaten was chained up naked in a cage, in what appeared to be a cellar.

The man immediately recognised the boy: it was the son of his next door neighbours, 8 year-old Ondrej Mauerova, whose torture and abuse was recorded via an identical video surveillance monitor that the neighbour had coincidentally also installed. The identical monitor systems was the reason for the confused signals.

The discovery led police to uncover heinous cult activity going on within the household next door, where not one but two boys were being held captive and tortured. The mother of the two boys, Klara Mauerova, had kept her sons, Ondrej and ten year-old Jakub locked in separate cages for over eight months while subjecting them to immense acts of cruelty, most often at the hands of her sister, Katerina and other family members, while Klara watched in enjoyment via the baby monitor in the kitchen.

The Mauerova family was once members of the Grail Movement, a cult which to this day has over 10,000 members worldwide. A number of years prior to the gruesome discovery in the Mauerova household, the family had been forcibly asked to leave the cult due to “activities which went against the cult’s principles”. Despite their excommunication from the cult, the family maintained their identity with the Grail Movement by forming their own breakaway faction.

Much of the abuse of the boys was allegedly co-ordinated by a man known only as the “Doctor”, presumably a leader of this breakaway faction, who sent mobile phone text messages to the Mauerova family, instructing them on how to abuse the two boys. The boys suffered savage beatings, repeated burns against their bare skin with lit cigarettes, frequent near-drownings in the bathtub, sexual abuse, and were forced to carry out acts of self-mutilation on themselves. They were often left to sit or stand in their own urine and faeces for days on end while chained in their cages or chained to furniture in the house.

The cruelty towards the younger boy, Ondrej took an even more sinister turn when his torturers forced him to cut off his own skin and eat it. They also skinned certain parts of Ondrej’s body themselves and feasted on his flesh while gagging the boy’s screams of pain with wads of material stuffed in his mouth.

A frequent tormentor of theirs was their adopted 13 year-old sister, Anna, who fled after the crimes were uncovered. In a bizarre turn of events, however, it was discovered during the search for Anna that she was not 13 years-old but was in fact a 34 year-old woman, known as Barbara Skrlova, a family friend of the Mauerovas. A woman of very slight stature and with very young features, she had been posing to police as the Mauerova’s adopted daughter as a disguise before fleeing to escape conviction. She was intercepted and arrested several days later at the Czech Republic border.

During the court trial, the boys’ mother and her sister refused to reveal why they had tortured the boys. The prosector insisted that the Mauerova family’s aim was to make the boys blindly serve their religious goals. Klara received a 9-year prison sentence, her sister, Katerina received 10 years, and four other people were tried and found guilty for their involvement in the torture of the two young brothers. Though the boys were rescued by police upon being discovered, it is not known what has become of them or where they are situated today.

In the photo above: evil mother, Klara Mauerova (far left, in the light blue coat) posing with Barbara “Anna Mauerova” Skrlova. The boys on the right are the two brothers, Ondrej and Jakub Mauerova.