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The first instructional hearing on the Miguel case concluded at the Cica (Integrated Center for Children and Adolescents) in Recife. Contrary to expectations, Sarí Côrte Real was not questioned today. The TJPE (Court of Justice of Pernambuco) will set a new date for the hearing of the accused. Furthermore, a defense witness has yet to speak in court.
Nine prosecution witnesses, appointed by the MPPE (Public Ministry of Pernambuco), were summoned. But only eight were heard in the 1st Court of Crimes against Children and Adolescents of the Capital, located in Cica. The MPPE surrendered with the ninth witness, who would be heard by videoconference. The defense agreed to withdraw.
Nine of the defense were listed. Four were heard in court on Thursday and another four will testify by precautionary letter, according to the TJPE, this happens when there are “witnesses or procedural parties who reside in another region, from different cities or states.” The ninth, who is also a prosecution witness, will testify in person as a defense on the same date of the questioning of Sarí.
At the end of that first hearing, which lasted almost eight hours, Sarí and Mirtes Renata, Miguel’s mother, left Cica without speaking to the press. Mirtes went to the headquarters of Gajop (Office of Legal Advice to Organizations), to give a press conference to journalists about today.
Protest
In the morning, relatives of the child Miguel and activists held a demonstration demanding justice for the child’s death. In front of Cica, the protesters held banners with slogans, such as “Black Lives Matter” and “In defense of the lives of black children.” A team from the 16 PM Battalion (Military Police) accompanied the event.
Miguel’s great-aunt, Sandra Maria de Santana, asked for Sarí’s conviction. “It was the abandonment of the disabled. She had everything in hand to reverse this situation and she did not do it. Because anyone would have done the opposite of what she did. I want her to be condemned for what she did.”
Miguel case
Sarí Côrte Real was denounced by MPPE for neglect of the disabled, resulting in the death of the child Miguel, aggravated as a crime against children and occurred in the middle of a health crisis. According to the complaint, accepted by the TJPE, the minor was under the provisional guardianship of Sarí, since his mother, Mirtes, was walking with the female’s dog.
Miguel was looking for his mother when he left Sarí’s apartment and ran between the building’s elevators. At one point, the first lady of Tamandaré leaves the boy alone in the elevator. According to the police investigation, Miguel went from the fifth to the ninth floor, climbed through a window and fell. The police investigation was completed on July 1.
