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"Seven people were arrested, including a local mayor, her wife, and several others." I think this should be "the wife of the mayor" rather than "the mayor and her wife" ; Brazil has only recognized same-sex marriages since 2013, so the mayor, in this case, was most likely a man.
This English-language wiki might be more helpful, given that google translations can be problematic:
Did the jury only find her guilty on the basis of that confession? She was found guilty 19 years after the crime.
I’m not pretending I know everything that happened in the court room (or the Brazilian judicial system in general) but it doesn’t read as if her sentence was forgiven because her confession was ruled inadmissible
Read more about the case - it took 19 years for her to be convicted because the judicial system in Brazil moves at glacial speeds. She was convicted based on the “confessions”, there was literally nothing else that connected her and the other accused to the crime - the lead investigator basically decided she was a witch performing a Satanic ritual.
The Portuguese article mentions an officer that was the head of... an investigative team, I think, who, the article says, may have had some sort of bizarre obsession with the number 7, hence 7 suspects.
The article, to me rather comedically, points out that this may come from the fact that his last name was Neves, which is seven backwards. His name isn't even mentioned in the English article.
The Portuguese article also talks a lot about a "cousin" of the murdered boy, who was apparently the first to accuse the mayor's wife and daughter - and he was not a neutral party because he had some kind of personal and political beef with the wife and her husband, the mayor, as well.
This shows the dangers of investigators getting tunnel vision and obtaining confessions through unethical means. Not only do innocent people get punished; but now they’ve lost time and evidence against whoever actually did it.
This is the second recent case on here from Brazil, and the only mystery that’s been solved is that Brazilian government/law enforcement is incompetent at best and criminal at worst.
Is this the case where, when you watch the interrogation videos, you can hear them being coached to say what they're saying just off screen? I think those videos were released fairly recently. Was there no further push to retry since then?
Hey, brazilian here. This case became very "famous" because there was a hit podcast about it. The podcaster actually was the one who received the tapes proving torture. I recall They being audio tapes, not video.
Thank you. I do recall there being clips of the interrogation in video format on YouTube (I saw them in a 4 panel box format, it seemed like they were all being interrogated at once on separate cameras? But that could have just been how the YouTuber formatted it for convenience sake.) and it was at that point I remember them mentioning the full tapes-- I must've conflated the two.
no, I couldn't find those. My first attempt failed and I couldn't really go on because I knew they were in portuguese, but if you can get them, share the link on here.
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"Seven people were arrested, including a local mayor, her wife, and several others." I think this should be "the wife of the mayor" rather than "the mayor and her wife" ; Brazil has only recognized same-sex marriages since 2013, so the mayor, in this case, was most likely a man.
This English-language wiki might be more helpful, given that google translations can be problematic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guaratuba_child_murders
It mentions that the mayor's wife and the wife's daughter were indicted for the murder, among others.
From the wiki:
“In 2016, her sentence was juridically forgiven due to her being the mother of a minor.”
Good to know you can be found guilty of murder and abuse of a 6-year old child but be forgiven if you have a kid if your own…. 🤦🏻
She didn’t do it though, her confession was coerced and she was tortured. There’s audio tapes of her questioning and you can clearly hear the torture.
Did the jury only find her guilty on the basis of that confession? She was found guilty 19 years after the crime. I’m not pretending I know everything that happened in the court room (or the Brazilian judicial system in general) but it doesn’t read as if her sentence was forgiven because her confession was ruled inadmissible
Read more about the case - it took 19 years for her to be convicted because the judicial system in Brazil moves at glacial speeds. She was convicted based on the “confessions”, there was literally nothing else that connected her and the other accused to the crime - the lead investigator basically decided she was a witch performing a Satanic ritual.
"doesn’t read as if her sentence was forgiven because her confession was ruled inadmissible"
It wasn't. The other poster is stating her innocence as if it's a fact, when legally it isn't.
The Portuguese article mentions an officer that was the head of... an investigative team, I think, who, the article says, may have had some sort of bizarre obsession with the number 7, hence 7 suspects.
The article, to me rather comedically, points out that this may come from the fact that his last name was Neves, which is seven backwards. His name isn't even mentioned in the English article.
The Portuguese article also talks a lot about a "cousin" of the murdered boy, who was apparently the first to accuse the mayor's wife and daughter - and he was not a neutral party because he had some kind of personal and political beef with the wife and her husband, the mayor, as well.
Thank you very much. I overlooked it kinda. But it's "the wife of the mayor" as you said.
This shows the dangers of investigators getting tunnel vision and obtaining confessions through unethical means. Not only do innocent people get punished; but now they’ve lost time and evidence against whoever actually did it.
Unethical? More like criminal, they were tortured.
they were working under pressure too. It's the whole system.
This is the second recent case on here from Brazil, and the only mystery that’s been solved is that Brazilian government/law enforcement is incompetent at best and criminal at worst.
Is this the case where, when you watch the interrogation videos, you can hear them being coached to say what they're saying just off screen? I think those videos were released fairly recently. Was there no further push to retry since then?
Hey, brazilian here. This case became very "famous" because there was a hit podcast about it. The podcaster actually was the one who received the tapes proving torture. I recall They being audio tapes, not video.
Thank you. I do recall there being clips of the interrogation in video format on YouTube (I saw them in a 4 panel box format, it seemed like they were all being interrogated at once on separate cameras? But that could have just been how the YouTuber formatted it for convenience sake.) and it was at that point I remember them mentioning the full tapes-- I must've conflated the two.
I appreciate the clarification!
I believe they were interrogated multiple times, so you are probably correct as well.
no, I couldn't find those. My first attempt failed and I couldn't really go on because I knew they were in portuguese, but if you can get them, share the link on here.
I haven't seen them in full but I saw excerpts on YouTube in a video about the case. If I find them again I'll post them.
The Evandro Case: A Devilish Plot was released by Globoplay.