The 4th Chamber of Criminal Law of the São Paulo Court of Justice upheld a 1st instance decision that condemned a woman for a series of crimes, including bodily injury to the elderly and persecution and threats to a family. The criminal is accused of stalking crimes and aggression against her husband’s former partner and her parents. The information was released this week.
According to the decision rendered by Judge Carlos Metroviche of the 1st Criminal Court of Sorocaba, in addition to the penalty set in one year and three months of detention in open regime, the defendant must pay each of the victims R $ 10,000.
For almost two years, the accused persecuted and threatened the victim and his parents on social networks. On one occasion, he went to the woman’s elderly parents and physically assaulted them.
In his vote, the rapporteur of the appeal, Judge Edison Brandão, dismissed the defensive thesis that alleged mutual and drunken aggressions, since, even if they had been proven, the circumstances would not exclude criminal responsibility.
“If the facts described in the complaint was well demonstrated, the conviction imposed itself as the only solution to the case, absent any exclusionary cause of anti -juridicity or culpability that could favor the accused,” said the judge.
The magistrate reiterated that reimbursement for moral damages is provided for by the Superior Court of Justice in cases involving domestic and family violence against women, when there has been express request of the prosecution.
A CNN He sought the Public Defender’s Office of the State of São Paulo, a body that defends the convict. However, it did not receive a return until the last update of this report.
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