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The father and stepmother of Valentina Fonseca, both suspects in the death of the nine-year-old boy, have already arrived at the Leiria Court, where They will be presented to an investigating judge for the first judicial interrogation and for the determination of coercive measures. The magistrate is the same person who carried out the investigation phase of the process that investigated possible crimes of negligence in the Pedrógão Grande fires.
Upon the arrival of the two Judicial Police cars at the court premises, a few dozen people waiting for the couple began to run to approach the suspects, shouting insults. Police had to intervene to eliminate the group.
While defendants may choose not to make statements (they have the right to silence), they also you can decide to tell the court your side of the story. If they do, they will be heard in turn and separately. Before that, the phase that is mandatory and to which they cannot refuse to respond: identification. Here, they must provide the judge with their personal data, such as name, age, address, profession and marital status. After the interrogation ends, the judge will decide whether the couple remains in detention, awaiting the next judicial steps in pretrial detention, the most severe coercive measure, or whether they can be released with other coercive measures. What the observer discovered from a judicial source, only at the beginning of the night will you know what measures have been applied.
Sandro and Márcia Bernardo were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of crimes of qualified homicide and desecration of a corpse. This is because, according to research, he killed his daughter and stepdaughter inside the house, in Atouguia da Baleia, on Wednesday afternoon. Then, they will have abandoned his body about eight kilometers away, covered in branches, in a eucalyptus about eight kilometers away. Preliminary autopsy results on the boy’s body point to a violent death.
From the serenity during the search to the defeatist stance in the reconstruction of the murder of the daughter. The behavior of Valentina’s father.
In the days that followed, the couple simulated Valentina’s disappearance, and even searched to find her. Three days after alerting the authorities to his disappearance, They were arrested, suspected of being involved in the boy’s death.
During Sunday afternoon, the boy’s father informed the PJ about the location of the body, but did not confess to the murder. Still, at the press conference given that day, the PJ rejected the possibility that Valentina died as a result of an accident. The father and stepmother were charged with the crimes of homicide and desecration of the corpse, although they are responsible for “different degrees” of the crimes with which they are accused, according to the PJ source.
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According to the investigation, the death “in the beginning” was not accidental. The girl was reportedly murdered at her home on Wednesday afternoon, and the body transported to the place where it was found that same night, “possibly by car.” There is no evidence that Valentina has been the victim of abuse by her father or stepmother, said Fernando Jordão, coordinator of the PJ, in the Leiria Criminal Investigation Department.
At the origin of the crime, according to the PJ, there will have been “internal problems in the functioning of the family.” The boy had been in the father’s house “for some time” during the necessary social isolation due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In the house where the crime occurred, there would be three more children, one “11/12 years old, another four years and one month old,” added Fernando Jordão, without detailing whether the children saw the moment when Valentina died.
Valentina died violently, with head injuries and signs of suffocation, indicates the preliminary result of the autopsy.
However, the boy knew of the preliminary autopsy result, indicating a violent death, with head injuries and signs of suffocation. According to the document, although there is evidence of suffocation, Valentina suffered assaults on various parts of her body, causing various injuries, including to her head..
