The case of the woman and two children held in private prison by the victims’ husband and father for 17 years, in the west of Rio de Janeiro, had already been reported in 2020, confirmed the Civil Police and the Public Ministry of the State of Rio de Janeiro. January (MPRJ).
The Civil Police and the MPRJ claim that they opened procedures to investigate the complaint, but the crime continued to be committed for more than two years and was only interrupted yesterday (29)with the rescue of the victims and the arrest in the act of the criminal.
The wife and two children were found tied up, dirty and malnourished at the criminal’s house, in the Guaratiba neighborhood. It was necessary to call the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu), due to the seriousness of the health condition of the three.
According to the Civil Police, the case is being investigated by the corporation’s internal affairs department. The first complaint about the crime was registered at the 43rd DP (Guaratiba) in 2020 and forwarded to the 36th DP (Santa Cruz) for investigation. Police say that, since then, the inquiry has been sent three times to the Public Ministry for action, the last being in May this year.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office says that the police investigation is at the 36th DP for compliance with the steps requested by the prosecutor. The MPRJ reported that the Guardianship Council learned of the complaint in March 2020 and informed the Prosecutor’s Office for Children and Youth that it had taken all measures to interrupt the detention, especially by reporting the crime to the 27th Military Police Battalion and the Police. Civil.
The Guardianship Council would have informed the MPRJ, soon after, that the entire protection network in the municipality was aware and that it had proposed legal action for complementary measures to protect the adolescent victim of the crime.
“There was no further information sent to the Public Ministry in the sense that the violence had not been stopped, which is why the subsequent action of the Guardianship Council and the protection network is being investigated”, says the Public Ministry.
wanted by Brazil Agencythe press office of the Secretary of State for Military Police reported that, according to the command of the 27th BPM, no official document on the case was found in 2020.
