VAMPIRE BABIES BORN ADDICTED TO BLOOD!
Tuesday September 7, 2004
They are the tiniest and most tragic victims of the civil war in the former Yugoslavia: Innocent babies born addicted to human blood.
Known as the Vampire Babies of the Balkans, an estimated 13,000 such tykes lead dismal existences in orphanages in Bosnia and Herzegovina or are shuttled from one foster home to another.
"These pitiful children are objects of loathing and dread, rejected by their own extended families," says Greta Schaffhausen of the Geneva-based International Crusade to Save the Children.
"It's heartbreaking to think that they will never run and play in the sunshine; never learn how to ride a bicycle; never see a dawn."
A handful of the youngsters, like little Milo Brajovie, have been adopted by compassionate American couples who see past their medical condition.
"When Milo sits up in his crib and stares at you with those huge, sad blue eyes, you can't resist picking him up and hugging him," says Wendy Mostlon of Kansas City. "Then he'll sink his little teeth into your arm and start trying to 'suckle,' and it can make your skin crawl."
The children are offspring of Bosnian women who were violated by Serbian troops in notorious "rape camps" -- then bitten by blood-drinkers loyal to Yugoslavia's Slobodan Milosevic.
"The Serbs used rape and vampirization as weapons of psychological warfare," Schaffhausen reveals.
"They knew that when these women returned home to their villages, bearing seed tainted by the so-called 'undead,' they would be pariahs.
"Often the mothers were killed by their own relatives after giving birth."
The infants, born mewing for blood, were placed in grim orphanages -- in cribs in dark basements.
"If these babies are exposed to sunlight, they break out in a terrible rash and are vulnerable to heat stroke," Schaffhausen explains.
The tots share common physical traits, including prominent canine teeth that develop within the first month of birth. At orphanages, they're bottle-fed goat blood by stern-faced nuns.
"They receive no affection. They are treated as the Devil's spawn," Geneva-based Schaffhausen says.
In some cases, unscrupulous adoption mills sell the infants to unsuspecting couples in Western Europe.
"A mother will be breastfeeding and feel tiny teeth penetrating her skin -- or become lightheaded and afterward feel 'drained,' " Schaffhausen says. "Some moms describe the baby 'drawing them' to the crib for feedings.
"It's rarely long before the babies are put up for adoption again or placed into foster care."
Little is known of the cause of vampirism.
"The prevailing theory is that it's caused by a parasitic microorganism," says Dr. Fritz Luechow, a U.N. expert in Sarajevo. "It rewires both the brain and the body."
Although no cure is available, a cocktail of drugs fights the symptoms.
"Milo still is most active at night, but now we can let him crawl around an hour or so during the day if we layer on sunblock and keep him away from the windows," says Wendy.
"We still give him a special plasma- added formula, but he'll try whole milk now, if we flavor it with a few drops of blood."
One bizarre symptom of the disease is that the babies' physical development is completely arrested. Tots as old as 10 look like infants.
"The doctors say that 60 years from now, Milo will still be trapped in a child's body," Wendy says. "That makes me sad."
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