A mother who cut off her boyfriend’s testicles and set him on fire after catching him trying to rape her daughter has been acquitted of murder. <\/p>\n
Erica Pereira da Silveira Vicente has confessed to killing her partner everton<\/span> Amaro da Silva in Minas Gerais, Brazil. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tsign up for Sun<\/span> Newsletter\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThank you!\t\t\t\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n However, according to Estado de Minas, Erica claimed that she only did so to protect her 11-year-old daughter from rape. <\/p>\n The defendant first became aware of what was happening when he discovered that his partner had sent harassing messages to the young girl. <\/p>\n When she went to confront him, Erica found Everton forcing himself on the screaming girl.<\/p>\n Next, she spiked her boyfriend’s drink with Klonopin \u2013 a drug used to treat seizures. <\/p>\n strait through<\/p>\n Trump-hating Spanish PM condemns Iran war… because Tehran is rewarding ‘non-hostile’ nations<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n missile diplomacy <\/p>\n Rejecting peace, Iran releases ‘video of attack on US aircraft carrier’<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n She attacked him with a knife when he was unconscious. <\/p>\n A teenager then helped Erica carry Everton’s body to a wasteland in Belo Horizonte. <\/p>\n Reaching there, he cut off the man’s testicles and set his body on fire. <\/p>\n The police were able to link her to the murder after suspicious traces of blood were found in Erica’s apartment. <\/p>\n Once they confronted him, he handed over the murder weapon. <\/p>\n The mother also immediately confessed to the murder, but insisted that it was only to save her daughter. <\/p>\n Prosecutors made it an issue in court. <\/p>\n He tried to argue that the brutality of the murder proved that it was carried out “not in blind rage, but with cold intent.” <\/p>\n However, it was a relief for the defendant that the jury found in his favor. <\/p>\n After only one day of testimony Erica was acquitted of aggravated murder and dismemberment of a corpse. <\/p>\n This is not the first time a child molester has met a bad end in Brazil. <\/p>\n In December, a convicted pedophile and child murderer was shot dead just hours after being released from prison. <\/p>\n Two armed gunmen were seen on CCTV approaching Jo\u00e3o Ferreira da Silva as he was leaving a hotel in Sinop. <\/p>\n The corrupt man was forced to put his hands behind his back before being led away from the entrance. <\/p>\n Moments later, he was shot at close range and collapsed on the sidewalk as his attackers fled. <\/p>\n The former mason was sentenced to 42 years in prison for the brutal murder of a nine-year-old boy in 2005. <\/p>\n A mother who cut off her boyfriend’s testicles and set him on fire after catching him trying to rape her daughter has been acquitted of murder. Erica Pereira da Silveira Vicente has confessed to killing her partner everton Amaro da Silva in Minas Gerais, Brazil. sign up for Sun Newsletter Thank you! Erica Pereira da<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[8824,3781,2122,2107,1352,231,307,160,4671,2459,10002],"class_list":{"0":"post-21362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bible-news","8":"tag-11yearold","9":"tag-acquitted","10":"tag-boyfriends","11":"tag-cut","12":"tag-daughter","13":"tag-fire","14":"tag-mother","15":"tag-murder","16":"tag-rape","17":"tag-set","18":"tag-testicles"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21364,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21362\/revisions\/21364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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