Little Jessica, in a photo published by the Correio da Manha website in Portugal.
The murder of the little girl Jessicathree years, shakes Portugal, stunned by the revelations of an investigation indicating that the girl was victim of kidnapping and mistreatment from a debt of 400 euros because of “witchcraft services”.
The girl was hospitalized this week in a hospital in Setúbal – about 50 kilometers from Lisbon – with a cardiac arrest in serious condition and doctors were unable to save her.
The autopsy revealed signs of mistreatment – with visible bruises all over the body and torn hair – and on Thursday 23 the police arrested three people: a 50-year-old woman posing as a nanny, her 52-year-old husband, and their daughter, 27 years old.
Little Jessica, in a photo published by the Correio da Manha website in Portugal.
The couple is accused of qualified murder and the daughter of refusal to help for failing to report or notify the emergency room.
The investigations
The first investigations, according to the Correio da Manha, reveal that Jessica’s mother was going to the fake daycare, Ana cristinato do “witchcraft work” e maintain his relationship with the girl’s stepfather.
The debt, of 400 euros, would be behind the kidnapping of the girl, held by her kidnappers for five days and beaten until she enters a dying setting.
Jessica’s paternal grandmother blames her mother for the girl’s death: “She cheated on me, she cheated on my son,” she said.
Police are also investigating the girl’s mother who, according to local media, said during the kidnapping that she was in a holiday camp. prevent social services from taking him into custody.
Jessica’s situation had already been investigated by the Portuguese Commission for the Protection of Children and Youth, which, however, closed the case in early June on the grounds that she was protected within the family.
Today lawyers, officials and experts are reflecting in Portugal on the chain mistakes that led to Jessica’s death.
“It is something that shocks everyone” and requires “investigating the failures of the system so that they can be corrected,” admitted today the Minister of the Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, number two of the Portuguese government.
Jessica’s wake will be held this Thursday at the Capela da Anunciada, and the door of the venue has been closed to avoid tensions between some of the neighbors.
Jessica’s mother and grandmother, the three-year-old girl who died in Setúbal, felt ill after seeing the girl’s condition inside the coffin.
According to Correio da Manha, the girl’s body was unrecognizable after being tortured and beaten, in what was a violent death.
After what happened, an ambulance was called by the Volunteer Fire Brigade of Setúbal, to assist Inês, the girl’s mother, and Rosa, the maternal grandmother.
Meanwhile, Jessica’s paternal grandmother blames her mother for the girl’s death: “He betrayed me, he betrayed my son”The woman said she went to the Judicial Police with the aim of showing her claim because Jessica’s mother is not yet in custody.
Source: Clarin