Sect leader on trial in Brazil mutilation murders
Thursday August 28, 2003 Superior Universal Alignment
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – A Brazilian sect leader and five others accused of kidnapping boys in a remote Amazon town, cutting off their genitals and sacrificially killing them has gone on trial. The trial, which comes 11 years after the police investigation began, will be a test of Brazil’s ability to bring justice to isolated areas where the legal system may be under the sway of powerful locals. It could also help unearth similar killings elsewhere. “This is a very important case, even if it comes 11 years afterward,” the government’s Human Rights Secretary Nilmario Miranda