Ms Bento’s comments represented the first time police have definitively acknowledged that a rape took place. What I want to do now is verify the extent of this rape and how many people took part.”
“I am convinced there was a rape, it’s right there in the video, when the guy touched the girl,” the newly appointed Detective Cristiana Bento told a press conference on Monday. Picture: Vanderlei AlmeidaĪuthorities have tried to mollify the public by transferring the case to a special police unit for crimes against minors and replacing the male lead investigator with a female detective who will work in consultation with the state’s social services department.
The arrest warrant issued by Brazilian police for 20-year-old Lucas Perdomo Duarte Santos, one of 33 men suspected of gang raping a 16-year-old girl in Rio de Janeiro.
