Judge Edmilson Cruz Júnior, of the 1st Court of Crimes Against Children and Adolescents in the Capital, in Pernambuco, denied the prosecution’s request for the ordering of preventive detention or retention of Sari Côrte Real’s passport, convicted of abandoning an incapable person, resulting in the death of the boy Miguel Otávio Santana da Silva, on June 2, 2020.
The sentence is dated July 19 and was published in the Official Gazette on Monday (25).
Sari was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison, but, as provided for by article 387, sole paragraph, of the Criminal Procedure Code, the sentenced person would have the right to appeal in freedom.
Miguel case
The boy Miguel Otávio Santana da Silva, aged 5, died after falling from the ninth floor of a building known as “Twin Towers”, in the São José neighborhood, in Recife, in 2020.
According to an investigation by the Civil Police, the fall occurred when the boy’s mother, who worked as a maid in one of the apartments, would have come down with her employer’s dog, Sari Côrte, and left Miguel in her care.
Camera footage from the elevator shows Sari leaving the boy after pressing the penthouse button. He presses other buttons, enters and exits several times, looking lost. Finally, he disembarks and goes to an area where there are air conditioning units, from where he fell from a height of about 35 meters.
Miguel was rescued while still alive by a doctor who lived in the building and sent by ambulance to Hospital da Restauração, but he did not survive.
*With information from CNN
Source: CNN Brasil
