Snatched on their way to school then castrated or decapitated: Horrifying rise in child human sacrifice in Uganda at the hands of witch doctors

Cruel witch doctors do not use their severed body parts to craft a magic potion, but claim to 'offer them' to the spirits who commanded them to carry out the brutal attacks.

In February, Uganda's government created a National Action Plan to stop the murders and approved a bill to regulate healers - some of whom were practising as real doctors. 

But the businessmen who pay thousands of pounds for the sick rituals are rarely prosecuted because witch doctors refuse to give up their clients.

The boys they castrate suffer the crippling after-effects of blood clots, a dangerous decrease of bone density and spinal fractures their entire lives.

Binoga warned child sacrifice will be difficult to stamp out because 'as long as people have such a belief, that practice will continue'. 

But furious activists say the senseless killings will continue because they are fueled by greed, not tradition.

'It is a gruesome crime against children driven by superstition, religious beliefs, witch craft and extreme poverty,' according to the founder of the Jubilee Campaign who documented these crimes.

Danny Smith told MailOnline: 'Ugandans will tell you this is widespread - everyone knows about it - and children are being murdered under the umbrella of superstition. 

'Witch doctors and traditional healers do very well because they convince them they have to go through different levels of spells - and the most powerful one is the blood of a human child.'