The 9-year-old child listened to the lecture on preventing sexual abuse, came to the conclusion that what she was going through at home was not normal and decided to complain to the teacher.
The girl was abused since 2022 – when he would have been 6 years old.
According to , the stepfather made her keep it a secret, forcing the abuse without the mother knowing.
It was during an awareness-raising campaign to prevent sexual abuse at a primary school in Amadora that the child realized that he was suffering from what had been represented in the presentation, realizing that his stepfather’s actions were wrong, and decided to complain to the teacher.
The 31-year-old suspect was arrested by the Judiciary Police (PJ), less than 24 hours later, and, due to the seriousness of the reports and the evidence collected, was held in preventive detention.
The morning’s investigation reveals that the couple had lived together for several years, with more minors, and even had a baby in common. Furthermore, “from the outside they gave the image of a structured and problem-free family“.
The awareness-raising action really helped: “It was a kind of trigger which led her to have the courage to verbalize a situation of which she was a victim. I have no doubt that there was a cause-and-effect relationship between this action and the decision to speak to the teacher,” he said. João Oliveirahead of the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Directorate of the Judiciary Police, at .
