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The Leiria Court ordered preventive detention for the father and stepmother of Valentina, the 9-year-old girl found dead in Peniche.
The boy’s father was the author of the crime, according to the examining judge of the Leiria Court.
Sandro Bernardo is charged with Qualified Homicide and Domestic Violence. Márcia is also accused of qualified homicide and under possible deceit. “Both defendants are still accused of the crime of desecrating a corpse.
The suspects left the court handcuffed. The woman goes to the Tire prison, where Rosa Grilo is also, sentenced to 25 years in prison for the death of her husband, the triathlete Luís Grilo.
Sandro will be detained preventively in the Lisbon prison.
The 9-year-old boy was reported missing on Thursday morning after a complaint from his father at the GNR post in Peniche.
After three days of searching, the judicial police found the boy’s body on Sunday in a forest in Serra D’el Rei.
Sandro, 38, and Márcia, 32, were arrested last May 10 for the alleged crime.
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