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After a man in Brazil was accused of sexually abusing a 3-year-old girl, community members apparently decided to take action.
According to local media outlets, the accused was found on the side of the road with his penis severed less than 24 hours after the alleged abuse. The man, who police in Severínia identified as 66-year-old Francisco de Souza de Castro, also lost three fingers in the incident, Estado reports.
Police are now trying to determine the identities of the people involved in the attack.
An investigation has also been launched into the alleged rape of the 3-year-old, reports note. The girl's mother reportedly noticed that something was amiss when she arrived home Sunday evening. Castro, who works on a farm where the child was staying with her grandparents at the time, was accused of sexually abusing the girl.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/brazil-penis-cut-off-severed-sexual-assault_n_5289992.html?utm_hp_ref=crime
newfie11
(8,159 posts)But toward the end it's not clear that she was raped.
RebelOne
(30,947 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Last edited Thu May 8, 2014, 08:10 PM - Edit history (1)
Which leads us to mob hysteria like this:
http://www.vocativ.com/world/brazil-world/lynching-brazil-facebook-responsible/
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)read the last paragraph of the article before you get cut happy.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)DireStrike
(6,452 posts)The most vile crimes are the ones where we must exercise the most restraint.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)So he must have been guilty.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)"Of course a suspect is guilty! Otherwise, he wouldn't be a suspect!"-- Edwin Meese, Attorney-General under Ronald Reagan.
erpowers
(9,350 posts)What if it turns out that he had not sexually assaulted the young girl? They should have let the police and the courts handle this situation.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)There's no undoing what they did to him, and evidence doesn't support he was even guilty of the accusation.