Miguel case: mother and stepmother go to jury for murder of 7-year-old boy in RS; remember the crime | Rio Grande do Sul

Trial of the “Miguel case” begins Thursday in Tramandaí

Miguel’s mother, Yasmin Vaz dos Santos Rodriguesand her partner at the time, Bruna Nathiele Porto da Rosa, are preventively detained. In the Jury Court, they must answer for the crimes of triple homicide qualified, torture It is corpse concealment. The qualifiers are a clumsy motive, a cruel means and a resource that made the victim difficult.

According to Thais Constantin, Yasmin’s defense lawyer, She will admit to the jurors what she did to her own son.

“This was a request from Yasmin herself, from the beginning of our conversations. She understands the acts she committed, that’s why she confessed. And she understands that she needs to be condemned, but her request to us, as a defense, was that she be condemned within the acts that she actually performed. This is our job, to show everything that Yasmim really did, the way she did it, and the excesses that are being brought into her conduct”, he points out.

The ex-partner’s defense claims that Bruna will assume the acts for which she was responsible.

“We took it to the jury plenary and, based on what has already been produced, we will work on a thesis so that Bruna is held responsible within the facts, of the responsibility that she must assume, based on the acts and facts that she contributed in some way. way”, explains lawyer Rafael Santos de Oliveira.

For the public ministryit is a shocking crime. The prosecution must request the maximum sentence from the defendants.

“Against a seven-year-old child, who had no one to help, within his ‘home’, for that person who should take care, come first. The motivation comes at a time when they have a marital crisis and the The boy becomes an obstacle, the cause of problems, so they decide to get rid of this problem”, emphasizes prosecutor André Luis Taroco Pinto.

The session takes place at the Tramandaí District Court, and is presided over by judge Gilberto Pinto Fontoura, head of the 1st local Criminal Court. The trial has expected two-day duration.

Understand the case: body of dead boy is thrown into river in Imbé

In the early morning of July 28, 2021Yasmin Vaz dos Santos Rodrigues gave medicine to her son Miguel and placed him in a suitcase.

At the time, in a statement to the police, she said she was not sure whether the child was alive or dead.

According to the case’s delegate, Antonio Carlos Ractz Júnior, “to escape, in fear of the police, [Yasmin] He left the house, taking the inner streets, not the main avenues, took the child in a suitcase to the riverbank, and threw the body. I repeat, she is not convinced that her son was dead.”

According to Ractz, “at dusk, the child’s mother, with her partner, sought out the DPPA of Tramandaí, in order to register a police report of her son’s disappearance.”

In the record, she “legated that her son had disappeared two days ago and that she had not yet contacted the police because she searched on Google and saw that she would have to wait 48 hours. And she began to present a series of contradictions, which led to distrust from the Military Brigade and Civil Police”, said the delegate.

The investigation revealed that the mother and her partner, Bruna Nathiele Porto da Rosa, were involved in the crime.

A day later, the prison was converted into preventive and she was sent to the Torres Prison. According to the delegate responsible for the case, Antonio Carlos Ractz, in a statement to the police, the woman confessed to the crime.

Yasmin’s companion, Bruna Nathiele Porto da Rosa, was also accused of the same crimes, answering for murder, torture and hiding a corpse. The two women have been in preventive detention since then.

After accessing and evaluating security camera images. In August 17th of the same yearthe police released videos showing Yasmin Vaz dos Santos Rodrigues, mother, and Bruna Nathiele Porto da Rosa, partner, walking through the streets of Imbé carrying a suitcase.

In one of the records they are identified taking the opposite route to the walk, however, without a suitcase in hand.

Forensics confirmed that the DNA found inside the suitcase was Miguel’s, as well as the blood identified on a t-shirt and a chain.

Since Miguel’s disappearance, firefighters have searched the Tramandaí River looking for the boy’s body. Watercraft, boats, speedboats and a drone were used to identify the most difficult to access places.

As there was a lot of forest and coastal vegetation, which made the search difficult, the Diving Team from .

Alerts were sent to vessels to keep an eye out for any signs of the boy’s body in the sea. Firefighters swept the beaches and shores of Capão da Canoa and Torres.

Searches were also carried out on land, in places close to where the two women passed.

In day September 13, 2021with the possibilities exhausted, delegate Antonio Carlos Ractz, commented that there were no longer any technical reasons to maintain the searches.

To this day, the Miguel’s body was not found.

Video shows conversation between mother’s partner and dead boy in Imbé

In one of the images, Miguel appears inside the closet where he was punished, while Bruna says: “if your mother arrives and you piss yourself, I will dismantle you with a stick. I dismantle you, I dismantle you, I dismantle you and you will come out broken.”

The video was found on one of the cell phones seized during the police operation.

Yasmin ended up telling the police that her son was grounded in the closet for about half an hour, and that she had a habit of attacking him as a form of punishment.

During the searches, the police found more evidence of mistreatment. Notebooks as if they were handwriting showed that he was forced to repeat phrases such as “I’m an idiot”, “I don’t deserve the mother I have” and “I’m a thief.”

Two padlocks and a chain were also seized, which were used to chain the child.

According to the police, the images and conversations found on the cell phone of Miguel’s mother’s partner were decisive for her arrest and would be proof of her participation in the crime.

In one of the stages of the investigation, the Civil Police revealed searches that had been carried out by Yasmin on her cell phone. During consultations, the boy’s mother sought, in the early hours of July 29, information whether “human fingerprints come out in salty sea water“.

In other research, Yasmin seeks information about heartbeats. Days before, on July 26, she searches the internet for “when the child starts hallucinating, which means?”, as the police explained at the time.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office of RS came to the conclusion, based on investigations, that the child was killed because the women considered him an “impediment” to the couple’s life.

“There are elements that say they were looking to form a new family. But that child would not be part of this new family”, reports the case’s prosecutor, André Luiz Tarouco Pinto.