Party deputies PSOL e PDT launched an offensive on CNJ (National Council of Justice) against the judge Magid Nauef Laureldo TJ-MG (Court of Justice of Minas Gerais)after he acquitted a 35 year old man accused of rape of vulnerable against a 12 year old girl.
The federal deputies Erika Hilton (PSOL-SP) e Doubt Salabert (PDT-MG) and the state representative Bella Gonçalves (PSOL-MG) They contacted the CNJ asking the judge to investigate sexual harassment. In the representations, the parliamentarians ask for Magid’s removal from office.
A CNN Brazil confirmed that the CNJ investigates the about the accusations against him.
In the TJ-MG trial, the judge argued that the relationship between the defendant and the child did not result from violence or coercion, being experienced publicly as a “marriage”.
“As if the gravity of keeping in office a magistrate who concretely votes against the law to pardon child rapists under the pretext of ‘consolidated family reality’ were not enough, it seriously undermines the credibility of Justice for the same magistrate to maintain the exercise of his jurisdictional functions at the same time that he is being investigated by “, wrote Erika Hilton in the representation, which asks immediate precautionary removal from Magid.
Duda says that “reprehensible conduct in your private life can place your ability to judge under suspicion and also tarnish the very image of the institution of the judiciary, which has been seen in this specific case.”
Bella also requests urgent communication from the Public Prosecutor’s Office, at the state and federal level, to investigate the accusations of sexual harassment against the judge. Furthermore, it requests a hearing from the victims who accused Magid of the crime, compulsory retirement or loss of office and annulment of the acquittal of the 35-year-old man.
In the report, the CNJ stated that, at the time of this publication, it had not yet received the representations.
A CNN Brazil He tried to contact the judge, but had no response until the publication of this report. The space remains open.
The TJ-MG reported that it received last Monday (23) “a representation reporting the facts in question and has already initiated an administrative procedure to determine any possible functional absence. The details of the procedure can be seen in Resolution 135 of the CNJ”.
Understand the case
The TJMG decided to acquit a 35-year-old man for the crime of understanding that he was in a “marriage” with a 12-year-old girl.
In addition to the man, the girl’s mother had also been accused and was also acquitted.
According to information published by the legal consultancy portal Conjur, the decision was justified by the Court’s understanding that there would be one.
“The entire relationship maintained between the accused and the minor did not result from an act of violence, coercion, fraud or embarrassment, but rather from a consensual emotional bond, with prior acquiescence from the victim’s parents and experienced in the eyes of everyone”, stated judge Magid Nauef Láuar, rapporteur of the defendants’ appeals.
In a note, the MPMG (Public Ministry of the State of Minas Gerais) informed that it will analyze the decision of the 9th Criminal Chamber.
The National Justice Inspectorate ordered the opening of a Request for Measures to investigate the decision of the Court of Justice of Minas Gerais.
*With information from Teo Cury, Ana Clara Machado and Daniela Mallmann, from CNN Brasil
