A Brazilian man murdered a 15-year-old
gay teenager to death before going back to his birthday party.
The 30-year-old
is charged with beating the young boy to death before disrobing his lifeless
body at a party in Santa Catarina.
He told police
he killed the boy because he has ‘gay anger’ and ‘suspected that he was gay’.
The 15-year-old
victim, Erick Kanaan da Silva, had gone to the party for the assailant with his
female friend and stayed after she left later that night.
Prosecuting
attorney Jair Pareira Duarte said the victim ‘left home without dinner, drank
on an empty stomach without being accustomed to alcohol and became ill’.
The assailant
then knocked da Silva to the ground and then started kicking him until he died, according to Universo Online.
It was found da
Silva died of a result of head trauma and internal bleeding.
The man
admitted to removing da Silva’s clothing over fear his fingerprints would be
identified.
After da Silva
was kicked, party guests moved the party to a different location without
calling police. The man and a group of friends allegedly wrapped the murder
victim in curtains, threw him in a truck, and discarded the body miles away.
As Rio readies
for the Summer Olympics, concerns have grown that LGBTI Brazilians are being
murdered at a huge rate.
According to
Grupo Gay da Bahia, nearly 1,600 LGBTI people are murdered in Brazil since
2011. By their estimates, a gay or trans person in Brazil is killed almost
every day.
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ReplyDeleteSuch a shame that homophobia and hate overshadow all the celebrations of human achievement (the Summer Olympics). I hope that justice is served in the prosecution of this murderer. Take care and stay bare!
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