Spanish soccer official Luis Rubiales' mom goes on hunger strike over "inhumane" backlash to World Cup kiss

In a bizarre twist in the story that's been called Spanish soccer's "MeToo" moment, the mother of the man at the center of a scandal sparked by an unsolicited kiss has locked herself in a church and gone on hunger strike to protest his treatment 

Ángeles Béjar, the mother of Luis Rubiales, the disgraced ex-head of the Spanish soccer federation, told Spanish news agency EFE on Monday that she'd shut herself inside a church in the southern Spanish town of Motril and that she would not eat until what she called the "inhumane and bloody" persecution of her son ended.

"He's not capable of hurting anyone," she said, wondering "why they are all being so cruel to him."