Rat Torture: One Of History's Most Barbaric Torture Methods
One of the most sadistic torture techniques involved having a
cage filled with large rats with one open side strapped against the
victim's abdomen.
The
cage is then slowly heaten. Desperate to escape the heat, the rat
begins to burrow through the only soft surface it can find: the victim's
flesh. With sharp claws and teeth, the rat quickly gnaws its way into
the victim's bowels, causing excruciating pain and terror, resulting in a
horrifying death.
The "Rats Dungeon", or "Dungeon of the Rats", was a feature of
the Tower of London alleged by Roman Catholic writers from the
Elizabethan era. "A cell below high-water mark and totally dark" would
draw in rats from the River Thames as the tide flowed in. Prisoners
would have their "alarm excited", and in some instances have "flesh ...
torn from the arms and legs"
During
the Dutch Revolt, Diederik Sonoy, an ally of William the Silent, is
documented to have used a method where a pottery bowl filled with rats
was placed open side down on the naked body of a prisoner. When hot
charcoal was piled on the bowl, the rats would "gnaw into the very
bowels of the victim" in an attempt to escape the heat.
Rat
torture appears in the famous case study of a patient of Sigmund Freud.
The Rat Man obsessed that his father and lady friend would be subjected
to this torture.
Rat torture was used by
several South American military dictatorships: in Brazil during the
military dictatorship of 1964–1985, in Uruguay during the civic-military
dictatorship of 1973–1985,[6] in Chile during the dictatorship of
Augusto Pinochet (1973–1990), in Argentina during the so-called
National Reorganization Process (1976–1983).
The report of CONADEP in Argentina detailed the use of a
torture method known as "the recto-scope" (reserved primarily for
Jewish prisoners) which consisted of inserting living rats into a
victim's rectum or vagina through a tube. Amnesty International
documented the case of a woman tortured by the Chilean CNI (National
Information Center, successor to the DINA) in 1981, who described being
kept in a room full of live rats during interrogation.
Serial
killer Richard Kuklinski alleged in a series of interviews that one of
his preferred methods of murder was to tie up a victim and leave them in
a cave overnight so they could be eaten alive by rats. He would also
leave a Super 8 camera in the cave to film the events. Like many of
Kuklinski's other claims, this has been disputed due to a lack of
evidence.
On October 16, 2010 in Lakewood, New
Jersey, David Wax was alleged to have threatened kidnap victim Yisrael
Bryskman with rat torture unless he agreed to give his wife a get
(Jewish divorce document). He was sentenced to seven years imprisonment
for assisting in a kidnapping
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