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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — A jury in an Amazon state acquitted the leader of a satanic cult on Friday in connection with the murder and sexual mutilation of several young boys. The jury voted 6-1 to acquit 75-year-old Valentina Andrade, who was accused of planning and ordering the mutilations and killings as part of a black magic ritual, a court official said by telephone from Belem, 2,400 kilometers (1,500 miles) northwest of Rio de Janeiro. Andrade was charged in the killing of three boys and the castration of two more. Four other defendants were convicted in earlier trials

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec 5 (Reuters) – A Brazilian court on Friday acquitted the alleged leader of a Satanic sect of the ritual mutilation and killing of boys in a remote Amazon town, officials said. The decision, by a 6 to 1 jury vote at the end of a 17-days trial in Belem, Para state, caused tumult in the packed courtroom with tears and protests from the victims’ families. “Valentina de Andrade is acquitted of the charges,” said judge Ronaldo Valle. Andrade, 72, fainted after the judgment and received medical treatment in court. Andrade’s defense lawyers made no comment

BRASILIA, Brazil, Sept 10 (Reuters) – A Brazilian court sentenced a doctor to 56 years in prison for the ritual mutilation and killing of boys in a remote Amazon town more than a decade ago, a prosecutor in the case said on Wednesday. Cesio Brandao received the sentence for the gruesome killings of three boys and the attempted murder of a boy who escaped from his captors after having his genitals removed. Fourteen years after the first kidnappings and mutilations, the trial is being closely followed as a test of Brazil’s ability to bring justice to remote areas where local

Valentina Andrade was a trusted clairvoyant in the backwater Amazonian town of Altamira. Many in the rural riverside community trusted her fortune-telling. But in a horrifying twist, Andrade, 75, has been revealed as the leader of a satanic sect that killed boys to use their sexual organs in voodoo rituals. She will be the last of five sect members to stand trial accused of luring poor boys into the jungle, where they were smothered with chloroform and dragged away to have their genitals removed. Revelations about the terrifying events have shocked the town, and hundreds of residents have been holding

A court in Belem, northern Brazil, has sentenced two men to a total of 92 years’ imprisonment for their part in the murder and sexual mutilation of young boys in the Amazon town of Altamira between 1989 and 1993. The trial was marked by dramatic moments. Outside, hundreds of people, including relatives of the murdered boys, marched on the courthouse carrying their pictures. They also held banners demanding justice. Inside, two of the three survivors, who escaped after being mutilated, recognised the two men on trial. One of the survivors said: “Then I was a child and afraid, but now

A court in Brazil has sentenced two men to decades in prison for participating in the murder and ritual mutilation of several young boys between 1989 and 1992. A jury in Belem, 2400km northwest of Rio de Janeiro, sentenced businessman Amailton Madeira Gomes, to 57 years of prison for the murder of three children killed in the western Amazon city of Altamira. The jury also sentenced Carlos Alberto dos Santos Lima, a former policeman, to 35 years of prison for the killing of one of the boys and attempted homicide of two others, the Para state justice court said on

Five influential members of Brazilian society went on trial this week for the suspected torture, castration and murder of five children, aged eight to 13, in satanic rites over a decade ago. Two mutilated survivors testified at the trial. Prosecutors charged that 19 children used in black magic rituals at Altamira, in Brazil’s Amazon region, between 1989 and 1993. Five had been tortured, some castrated, before being killed. The witnesses were among five survivors of the rituals who managed to escape, but not before also having their genitalia mutilated. They were aged between eight and 13 at the time. Brazil’s