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The man detained in Machico, in Madeira, for assaulting his wife at dawn on Monday, knows this Wednesday the coercion measures. He was arrested by PSP, two and a half days after beating his wife in the presence of his 9 -year -old son. The case gained strength because the aggression was filmed and the images shared on social networks.
This case was not in the secret of the four walls and between husband and wife civil society even put the spoon. Video surveillance images were made public on social networks.
In the early hours of Sunday to Monday, a woman was assaulted by the father of her nine-year-old son, abroad of a housing in Machico. The despair of the child to be pleaded, in tears, to the parent, so as not to hit the mother is audible.
“This child has a video that demonstrates suffering, panic, fear, the anguish she has gone through to expect the smaller family court to pay attention to the suffering that this act has caused because we often hear in the courts to say that he may have been an evil husband but was an excellent father, than the fact that he hit his mother,” says Mauro Paulino, a forensic psychologist Paulino
Physical force gives the aggressor an advantage, but the law gives legitimacy to the action of the authorities. more than 48 hours after beating on Tuesday afternoon, but only after the issuance and delivery of detention warrants.
He was waiting for a presentation for judicial interrogation that should take place within 48 hours to know the coercion measures.
“There are two types of measures here. The measures that result from the law itself regarding the crime of domestic violence, which has to do with the removal and the panic button or even the transfer of the victim to a shelter place, and then the other criminal measures that due to the severity of the facts, and here these facts are doubly serious, and allow a private measure of freedom,” explains Miguel Matias, lawyer.
As a Machico Municipal Firefighter, the command has already commented, considering the reprehensible case, calling for justice to be done and also ensuring that legal services are analyzing the process to act in accordance.
The 34 -year -old victim was referred to the Health Center and then to the Funchal Central Hospital, where he was underwent surgery.
It is at family home, under police protection and being accompanied by social security. Madeira has 46 new vacancies in the shelter houses for women and children, victims of domestic violence.
