Brazil congressman ordered to pay for offensive remark

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


SAO PAULO — The Associated Press
Published Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 11:57AM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017 11:57AM EDT


The Federal Appeals Court has ordered a conservative Brazilian congressman to pay a colleague more than $3,000 for saying she wasn't worth raping.

Judge Nancy Andrighi on Tuesday ordered Jair Bolsonaro to pay Maria do Rosario 10,000 reals ($3,125) for saying in a December 2014 newspaper interview that she is not "worth raping; she is very ugly."

One day before the interview, Bolsonaro said on the floor of Congress that do Rosario had called him a "rapist" in 2003 and added that he would not rape her because she didn't "deserve it."

Brazilian lawmakers enjoy parliamentary immunity that protects their speech, opinions and votes in congress. However the court said that immunity does not apply to Bolsonaro because he made similar remarks later in the interview.

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Jair Bolsonaro. Of course he is a right-winger.

[sandensea]

1. Ah, yes. The one that dedicated his vote to impeach Dilma Rousseff to her torturer.

Smugness in the flesh.

[Judi Lynn]

2. He's the one! That was evil. How could any human be that dirty?

She suffered for ages in prison for fighting the fascist military dictatorship. It was no surprise when her former prisoners made a point of telling the media that she was courageous and never broke.

I didn't know who this clown was when I read the information about the gleeful conservative vote for her impeachment, but I did know when I heard one of them publically dedicated his vote to the sociopathic monster who tortured her repeatedly, that whoever said that really was a vicious, hateful man who was begging fate to vaporize him where he stood.

Glad I have the face to keep in mind now when I remember that dirty, spiteful, theatrical, dedicated vote against President Rousseff.