In view of the huge wave of indignation over the case of a 10-year-old child, the religious apologized.
A priest from the small town of Carlinda, in the interior of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, shocked his parishioners by insinuating on the internet that a 10-year-old girl who became pregnant by her uncle, who had been raping her since she was six, took so long to denounce sexual assault is because he liked the sex he had with the relative, who was arrested this week. In view of the huge wave of indignation that his words provoked in social networks, the religious, Ramiro Perotto, issued a statement, acknowledging the authorship of the messages and apologizing “to anyone who was offended” that he accused the child of liking the children. brutal sexual assaults he suffered.
“They will defend it elsewhere. Do you believe that the girl is innocent? Do you believe in Father Christmas too? Six years, raped for four years and said nothing … Of course I was enjoying it too. She likes to” give “(slang) in low slang which means enjoying sex), then assume the consequences. She agreed with everything and now wants to appear as innocent … “, wrote the priest in an exchange of messages about the case, which took place in the state of Espírito Santo and who gained national dimensions days ago with the controversy caused by the authorization of the justice for the girl to terminate the pregnancy, a fact that infuriated sectors linked to the evangelical movement, ultra-radical groups close to President Jair Bolsonaro and also some more conservative members of the Catholic Church.
The words of the priest of Carlinda were immediately criticized by a legion of Internet users, even many of them opposed to abortion, but who considered that a religious could not have manifested himself in that way, blaming the victim for the aggressions that he suffered silently for years for fear of threats that the uncle made to him. The Archdiocese of Sinop, also in the state of Mato Grosso, to which the parish of Carlinda responds, until this Friday had not manifested itself on the words of the priest, nor responded to requests for him to be removed or, at least, reprimanded .
The case of the girl raped by her uncle for four years was discovered on the 8th, when the child, complaining of abdominal pain, sought a hospital in the city where he lived, São Mateus, in the interior of the state of Espírito Santo, and the doctors they found out she was almost five months pregnant. At the hospital, the girl said that an uncle, a 33-year-old man arrested for drug trafficking but whom the court authorized to serve his sentence at home, had raped her since she was six and threatened to kill her grandfather if she told him any. something to someone.
The judge of the São Mateus Childhood and Youth Court, António Moreira Fernandes, authorized the girl to terminate the pregnancy due to the fact that it is due to a sexual crime and that there is a risk of life for the child, but the decision generated a huge battle religious and ethical. Doctors from Espírito Santo refused to have an abortion authorized by justice and the girl had to travel to another Brazilian state, Pernambuco, where the procedure was carried out after extreme right groups led by radical activist Sara Winter, leader of an armed support group President Jair Bolsonaro tried to invade the hospital to prevent abortion.
Two days after the procedure at the specialized hospital in Recife, capital of Pernambuco, the girl and her grandmother, who raised her because her father was imprisoned and her mother died, left the health unit carrying a mountain of toys, chocolates and books. offered by strangers from all over Brazil who were moved by the dramatic story. The girl and her grandmother went to an uninformed place, and will receive new identities, a fully furnished house and financial support to start a different life.
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