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By Daniela Vilar Santos and Tânia Laranjo
17:50
On Thursday the 7th, her father would alert the GNR of the disappearance of the girl in Atouguia da Baleia, Peniche. There were four days of searching. Police, fire, scouts, military, and popular people joined together to find Valentina.
The father’s calm, the carpet on the porch, the washed clothes and the inconsistencies in the testimonies led PJ to a conclusion: Valentina Fonseca will have been beaten and killed by her father with the help of her stepmother. The autopsy reveals that he was in agony for 13 hours. The body was thrown on a saw and covered by a broom.
A week after his death, his father and stepmother are sentenced to preventive detention.
Sandro Bernardo, Valentina’s father, alerted the GNR at 8:30 a.m. of the disappearance of his 9-year-old daughter.
Firefighters, GNR and pisteiro dogs toured streets and fields in the parish. The girl could not be far.
The crime scene was remote. The Judicial Police was already aware of the case with the indication that in 2018, the girl had already disappeared from another house where the family lived in the municipality, then the police found her.
As time goes by and without news of the girl, doubts begin to arise. The first question is the moment when Valentina disappeared. The father says he last saw his daughter around one in the morning. He says he went to curl up in bed.
Valentina had been at her father’s house for a week. It would show signs of being sad; The change in routines, the absence of school and the impossibility of being with friends, may have bothered the girl.
There were no signs of third party intervention or evidence of violence in the home. In addition, the fact that the child took off his pajamas, sneakers and only with a coat could lead him to think that he would not walk much. Maybe you want to go back. He had no access to cell phone or internet.
Another hypothesis, presented by the family, is that the child had a sleepwalking crisis. However, the possibility was unlikely, since the girl was very afraid of the dark.
A day had passed and there is no trace of Valentina.
My love, come back to us, we are desperate “
Valentina’s mother on Facebook
She moved into her home, lived with her mother in Bombarral, and went to stay with her father, stepmother, and stepbrothers in Atouguia da Baleia, in Peniche, a place where she could better follow school through online classes. He was away from his friends, he lived closely with two half brothers.
Family members and those close to the family continue to be questioned by the PJ.
Third day of searching for Valentina. The faces show signs of tiredness. Sadness is visible on the faces of family, popular people, friends, firefighters, and military personnel who are searching.
Clues increasingly point to the voluntary disappearance: Valentina may have left the house alone overnight.
“Return to our arms for the love of God”
Valentina’s mother on Facebook
Valentina’s stepmother and father are arrested and the contours of the crime begin to be known. The girl was reportedly murdered at her home on Wednesday night. In the same room were three other children, ages 12, 4, and one a few months old.
The girl’s father begins by telling the PC that the girl had suffered an attack, that it had been a spasm and that they panicked.
The girl’s half brother explained that he saw the girl enter the bathroom with the adults on Wednesday and that he no longer saw her leave. Then they sent him to sleep.
After confronting this child’s statement, Sandro confessed. He said he was demanding that his daughter tell him the truth about the rumors that he was being sexually abused. She says Valentina was bathing and it was at that moment that he pressured her and tried to force a confession. But, even in her version, she had an attack and seizures. And he died. Márcia, the stepmother, said she was not even in the bathroom. Nor does it assume that it helped hide the body. Sandro confirms, but frees the woman from death. They took the girl’s body in the back seat of her green Renault Scenic and hid it with the broom.
Also the “heart grandfather” of Valentina, the current companion of the girl’s maternal grandmother, revealed that the police needed to deliver the girl’s clothes to the dogs, but that Marcia refused to give it to her because she had “washed the clothes” on Wednesday .
Applause and white and pink balloons were heard in the direction of the car where the ballot box followed them. Inside, tears and despair covered the face of Sónia Fonseca, who was accompanied by her son’s boyfriend and uncle.
GNR established a security perimeter and only allowed family members and close friends to access the ceremonies, applying the recommendations of the General Directorate of Health due to the pandemic.
At the entrance to the cemetery, another moving moment with Valentina’s mother, clinging to the coffin, in complete despair. A priest spoke briefly before the procession went to the girl’s last address. Sónia Fonseca did not contain all the excitement after burying her daughter and ended up passing out. An ambulance was immediately called and they took her to the hospital.
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.
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