A 29 -year -old woman claims to have been raped by four police officers and a municipal guard for part of the nine months she was arrested at a Santo Antônio do Içá Police Station (AM), waiting to be transferred to Manaus.
According to the victim, sexual abuse occurred between November 2022 and August 2023, at the 53rd Santo Antônio do Içá Police Station, in the Southwest Amazonian, where she was provisionally imprisoned, along with male prisoners. However, the woman only reported the case to the authorities after August 28, 2023, when she was removed to the Manaus Women’s Public Prison, where she is serving a closed sentence for the crime of qualified homicide.
“Until then, the only person who knew the abuse was her mother,” he explained to Brazil agency Lawyer Dacimar de Souza. He assumed the defense of the woman in the process in which she is defendant about two months before she was transferred from Santo Antônio do Içá to Manaus. Now it represents it in the indemnity action filed in February this year, and in which the victim calls for moral reparation equivalent to 350 minimum wages, or about R $ 530 thousand.
“She did not trust to report the abuses suffered or to lawyers who represented her before, nor to the Creas psychologist [Centro de Referência Especializado da Assistência Social] that accompanied her. And he only felt security to tell me what had happened months after I took the cause and when she was already in Manaus, ”added Souza.
Still according to the defender, the Woman reports that the four police officers and the municipal guard abused her during the night on duty, even when she was in the puerperium, 20 days after delivery. Abuses occurred to not only other men prisoners with whom she shared makeshift jail at the police station, but also a newborn son, who spent at least two months next to the victim to be breastfed to be breastfed to be breastfed to be breastfed to be breastfed to be breastfed
“According to my client, agents forced her to consume alcohol and then maintain forced sex with them,” said Souza, ensuring that he himself witnessed the presence of the baby with his mother in the cell.
The irregular conditions in which the woman spent nine months arrested-in a makeshift space, in the company of men and with a newborn child-were documented by the lawyer who represented her before Souza and asked her to be transferred to the home regime to be able to take care of the child. They were also registered by a delegate who reported to the court that St. Anthony of Içá has nowhere to keep segregated or temporary women or prey, and also by a magistrate who inspected the site.
“She was placed in a cell after being arrested [em novembro de 2022] by virtue of an open arrest warrant that she didn’t even know existed, since [em maio de 2020] The court had authorized her to serve house arrest for the alleged crime of murder, ”added Souza, referring to the murder of 16-year-old teenager Camille Vitória Rodrigues dos Santos, strangled on December 31, 2018 in Manaus.
“As, in the city, the police had nowhere to put my client, since [em novembro de 2022] She had already been convicted, the manager decided to keep her in a makeshift cell in a corridor, where they get more dangerous male arrested. And there she remained for nine months, because, although the delegate asks for an urgency to transfer my client to the capital, Seap [secretaria estadual de Administração Penitenciária] He claimed logistical and financial difficulties to effect the transfer, ”said the lawyer, claiming that under these circumstances the presence of a child in the cell was the way he was to be breastfed.
“My client’s family is unable to take care of this child who needed his mother and who had no more to stay with,” said the lawyer, revealing unaware of whether such a “solution” was authorized by the judiciary.
“The presence of this child in the cell has already been a state error, which was informed of the situation by the manager [delegado]”Said the defender.
Also according to the lawyer, the alleged sexual abuse that the woman says have suffered were attested by the Forensic Medical Institute (IML), on August 28, 2023, when she was finally transferred to the female public chair of Manaus. The crime body examination reports that there is evidence of “carnal conjunction” resulting from a violent act related to the “crime in calculation”, without alluding to the possible abusers – even though, according to the victim, public agents responsible for ensuring their integrity had raped a few days earlier.
“This is now in the hands of justice. We believe that the perpetrators will be identified and convicted in the criminal sphere. In the civilian sphere, we are asking that the state of Amazonas be obliged to fund all the treatment of the victim, who continues to suffer, having even been diagnosed with severe depression. In addition, we are claiming a moral and material repair of $ 500,000, although we may be able to repair the damage, all the suffering, all the suffering, the suffering for the suffering, the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the suffering for the Which she passed, ”concluded the lawyer.
Testimony
An entourage from the State Prosecutor was in the Manaus Women’s Public Prison on Tuesday afternoon (22) and collected the indigenous testimony (photo highlighted by the prosecutor with the victim). For the agency, the case “exposes serious complaints of institutional violence, abuse of authority and violation of fundamental human rights”.
“It is important to say that this woman was the victim of violence by people who should safeguard her integrity. Something that, as a rule, happens to women, who are victims of violence in the family environment – committed by partners and family members – on the streets and, often, this institutionalized violence [no país]”, Commented the Attorney General Leda Mara Albuquerque, in a video released to the press on Wednesday (23).
In the message, the prosecutor states that it is necessary to discuss the prison issue of Amazonas seriously. “We can no longer accept that there are no spaces to custody women. Despite any and all illegal act that a woman has committed, any criminal offenses, she must have, in public prisons in the interior of the Amazon, a space consistent with her citizen condition,” charged Leda Mara, pointing out that, as a rule, the state’s public criminal establishments do not comply with the criminal enforcement law.
Indigenous
According to the Public Prosecution Service of Amazonas (MP-AM), the woman who claims to have suffered sexual abuse is indigenous, from Kokama ethnicity-information reinforced by lawyer Dacimar de Souza.
Consulted by Brazil agencythe National Foundation of Indigenous Peoples (Funai) reported that as soon as he learned of the report of violation of human rights during the incarceration of an indigenous woman, mobilized the administrative and legal instances to adopt the necessary measures.
“In view of the severity of the case, the Specialized Federal Attorney’s Office (PFE) with Funai was called to provide legal guidelines and adopt the relevant measures,” added the Foundation, ensuring that the MP-AM, the State Public Defender’s Office and the Federal Public Defender’s Office (DPU) act in the case.
“PFE also defeated the General Corregedoria of the Public Security System, knowing about the facts and requesting steps to the immediate removal of the police mentioned by the indigenous,” said Funai, who also requested access to disciplinary administrative procedures already established to investigate the ongoing facts and judicial proceedings. The municipality also reported the Women’s Ministry to verify the protective measures to be implemented, including to verify reports that other women go through the same situation at the Santo Antônio do Içá police station.
Calculation
In a statement, the State Secretariat of Public Security (SSP-AM) reported that the General Corregedoria of the Amazonas Public Security System and the Civil Police instituted procedures to investigate the case. He also reported that the Military Police are finalizing the investigations within a military police inquiry that is being confidential.
The Attorney General’s Office of Amazonas (PGE-AM) ensures that he has only become aware of the complaint when provoked, at the scope of the indemnity action, to comment on the request for psychological and psychiatric care presented by the complainant. “Immediately, the PGE requested information from the Civil Police, as well as to the Corregedoria of the Public Security Secretariat, on investigative procedures. The requested medical care was scheduled by the Amazonas Penitentiary Administration Secretariat (Seap), and are already being provided.”
Also according to the State Attorney’s Office, two proposals of values have already been presented to the complainant’s lawyer to end the action for moral damages. “The proposals were not accepted and the process follows, awaiting trial.” According to lawyer Dacimar de Souza, in the last of them, PGE-AM proposed that the state government pay $ 50,000, or less than 10% of the amount the woman claims.
Caution
Also in a statement, the State Public Defender’s Office confirmed that it was informed on August 28, 2023 that “an indigenous reeducanda of the Kokama ethnicity,” reports that he suffered “multiple rapes” during the period that was in custody at the Santo Antônio do Içá police station – that is, one day after the complainant was admitted to the Women’s Prison of Manaus.
“At the time, the victim was extremely shaken and afraid that if the case came to public, there was retaliation from the police involved, since his mother and children still resided inside the state – which is why the Defender chose to conduct the case with the maximum caution, ensuring the integral protection to the victim and their families, while adopting all appropriate legal measures.”
Also according to the Defender, the woman was immediately heard by teams of the organ, with the support of psychologists, and was in a “state of extreme emotional weakness”, “slaughtered, crying constantly and refusing to feed.”
“After the report, the Public Defender’s Office requested the immediate referral of the victim to the Women’s Police Station, where an examination of a crime, whose expert report was performed [conforme afirma o advogado da denunciante] He confirmed the occurrence of carnal conjunction and the presence of signs of violence, ”said the State Defender’s Office, revealing that he ended the request for the Court of Criminal Executions to authorize the woman to serve her sentence in home. and pointing to“ the severity of the complaints ”.
