But when petrified five-year-old Fernando was scared by the commotion, his mother and sister grabbed a spoon and used it to gouge out the child's eyes. All five family members were sentenced to 30 years each. Neighbour Joaquin Arguellor told the court he thought the family were devout and deeply religious, not Satanists. He said: "We could hear screaming and we were banging on the door but nobody was answering, then a police patrol came past and one of the women who was with us ran into the road to flag it down, and officers forced their way inside." Officer Benet Curiel said they witnessed a scene of horror inside. Scantily-clad satanists were hunched over the screaming boy in the kitchen and the two women were covered in blood: "We called for an ambulance and kept the group against the wall at gunpoint away from the boy.