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Student Jeniffer Melo, who denounced the messages
They exchanged “stickers” in a Whatsapp group with content that became minors pornography. Student complained, university forced them to apologize and the prosecutor filed the case.
Cristiano Ronaldo with Nazi clamp, Hitler photos with subtitles like “gives her gas” and jokes like “I love blacks, I even bought one.”
This content, and another, was shared in a WhatsApp group of students from a residence at the University of Trás-os-Montes (UTAD).
Jennifer Melo, Brazilian student of the Veterinary Medicine Course that was 25 years old, showed her inconvenience for the messages of content Nazi and Racista (The young woman is black).
“It’s black humor,” justified a colleague. But Jennifer decided to report the situation to the direction of the university residence where students live. But the messages continued in another group, only with students of the course.
The images continued to emerge in the chatincreasingly explicit, until they reached a point where content was exchanged pornography hardcore and child pornography, with children in sexual poses.
“Finding the episode inadmissible to happen again, I realized that the situation was a little more serious and widespread,” he told The Student.
Then made a Written exposure of the situation to the rectory of the university. “I manifest not only my enormous concern for the succeeded but also our determination to respond immediately and adequately to the attitudes and behaviors it reports,” reads the document to which the Express had access.
UTAD “will not tolerate or cease to combat any kind of manifestation, public or private, discrimination, xenophobia, racism, sexism or the like that occurs within its academic community,” was the university’s response, which forced students who sent them “Stickers” Write an apology Jennifer and other visited students.
“It is important to emphasize that the shared contents did not have a specific recipient and were sent in a context in which some participants realized how humorous the response to ongoing events. We would also like to point out that the images or elements present in this content do not reflect, in any way, our ideologies or values. This behavior was not motivated by bad intentions, ”they wrote, then asking for“ sincere excuse ”.
But Jennifer did not conform to an apology, and was heard at a 6-hour meeting where the university even suggests that consult the university psychologist and stop doing “more dramas”.
“I feel embarrassed by the students’ behavior and also with the university that had to have acted exemplarily and did not,” says Utad Mila Abreu teacher.
Jennifer’s name came to be referred to directly on the content of the messages And the student eventually returned to Brazil, where she completed the course. But not without a complaint to the Public Prosecution Service.
The prosecutor, Miguel Alves, eventually filed the complaint, justifying that the defendant (the young man who sent the pornographic stickers) did it “in a joke context” and because “thought they were funny.”
The controversy eventually took the university to Cut the protocols with Erasmus Student Network (ESN), organization of Erasmus students, due to a climate of “instability” and “distrust”.
