Alleged witch, Maria Guadalupe R.M, 33, was beaten to death by a dad who was trying to stop her from kidnapping his son in the Mexican border town of Juarez

Maria Guadalupe broke into the home while the child’s parents were asleep with the intention of killing the 18-month-old in offering to Santa Muerte, in a Santeria ritual

She previously asked the man, who is her nephew, to hand over his son, stating she intended to offer the child as a sacrifice to the cartel patron saint

Maria Guadalupe’s attempted kidnap failed when the boy’s dad Carlos Gabriel, 23, beat her to death with a baseball bat

Ruled self-defense, Carlos Gabriel was released without charges 48 hours later

Maria Guadalupe R.M, [photo], 33, was beaten to death on Sunday, by her nephew who was trying to stop the alleged witch from kidnapping his son in Juarez, intended as human sacrificial offering in Juarez, across the border town of El Paso, Texas

A 33-year-old Mexican woman believed to be a witch with cartel ties, was killed after she tried to snatch an 18-month-old out his parents’ arms with the stated intent of killing the child as sacrifice to the patron saint of cartels. 
Before the alleged witch, identified as Maria Guadalupe R.M, accompanied by several men tried to kidnap the child, to take to a Santeria sacrifice.
She had previously made explicit overtures to the father of the child Carlos Gabriel C.R. – who is also her nephew – stating that she believed a dead family member had been reincarnated as his son, reported local newspaper Norte Digital.
Accompanied by two male enforcers, she broke into her relatives home in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, as her nephew slept with his wife and son and tried to take the child by force.

In this shrine to Santa Muerte found in a Fort Worth, Texas stash house, apples, flowers, a bottle of tequila and cigarettes had been left as offerings to the angel of Holy Death

However, on Sunday Carlos Gabriel C.R., 23,  defended his family and fought back with a baseball bat, killing Maria Guadalupe.
The two unidentified male accomplices in the home to aid in his son’s kidnapping, were scared off by neighbors who alerted the cops about what was going on. The men who are still at large.
Maria Guadalupe had previously asked her nephew to give his son to her and stated she intended to offer the child as a sacrifice to Santa Muerte, the patron saint of the Mexican cartels. 
Guadalupe was known to be a witch and practiced satanic worship in her home in Juarez, Mexico, just across the border from El Paso, Texas, according to local media reports.

This statue of the ‘Holy Death’ was seized by the DEA in 2011 from two women transporting over 700 grams of methamphetamine between Arizona and Minnesota, was painted gold to represent economic power, success, and prosperity

The 33-year-old ‘witch’ known to have ties to the notorious street gang Los Mexicles, the armed goons for the Sinaloa drug cartel, formerly run by drug kingpin El Chapo Guzman, also sold drugs and took part of rituals and sacrifices Santa Muerte on the gangs behalf. 
Cartel members in both Mexico and in the US are known to worship statues of cloaked skeleton woman holding a globe and sickle in her hands.

Local TV news crew found what look like the skeletal remains of a dog at home of the witch

The criminal organizations believe their saint, which has been denounced by the Catholic Church, will offer them protection from their violent rivals and keep them safe as they smuggle drugs and humans across the border.
Increasing in the US, stash houses where people and drugs are warehouses as they are transported into the country, cops are finding alters to Santa Muerte, like a recent discovery Fort Worth, Texas. 
In Juarez, a roadside shrine to Santa Muerte- Spanish for holy death- mysteriously popped up near the border in March– on a road where 21 bodies have been dumped this year alone. 

A guard dog patrols the home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico home where a witch was clubbed to death after she attempted snatch an 18-month-old child from his parents on Sunday

Her demand that her nephew hand over his son for human sacrifice failed. Maria Guadalupe [right], attempted snatching the boy. The dad Carlos Gabriel, [left], beat her to death with a baseball bat. Ruled self-defense, he was released without charges 48 hours later.

It’s uncleared if the boy who was nearly kidnapped was hurt, however, his father turned himself authorities this week. 
He was released after 48 hours without charges, as authorities found he acted in self-defense. 
His ‘witch’ aunt was also a suspect in another death, after a skeleton was found in her home in May. 
The remains of a 22-year-old man were found on her property near a cement slab with a image of Santa Muerte on top of it was found.