[Pactonacional] ENC: SPM Mídia: entrevista da secretária Aparecida Gonçalves para o New York Times

[Susan Sousa Alves]

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De: Cilene Alves Menezes de Freitas Pinheiro 
Enviada em: terça-feira, 2 de abril de 2013 10:08
Para: SPMULHERES - GERAL
Assunto: SPM Mídia: entrevista da secretária Aparecida Gonçalves para o New
York Times

April 1, 2013

American Woman Gang-Raped and Beaten on Brazilian Transit Van


By  SIMON ROMERO
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ndex.html
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/simon_romero/i
ndex.html> > and TAYLOR BARNES


RIO DE JANEIRO - An American woman was raped by three men aboard a public
van in a six-hour abduction over the weekend that began in the seaside
district of Copacabana, the police said.

The attackers pummeled the woman's face and tied up her male companion, a
French citizen, then beat him with a metal bar as he witnessed the harrowing
assault. The couple were forced to use bank cards to withdraw money from
their accounts before the assailants finally freed them at a bus station on
the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

The assault stunned many in Brazil, especially as Rio tries to promote
itself as a city on the mend and prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and
2016 Olympic Games.

"Everyone should be shocked by this horrendous crime," said Aparecida
Gonçalves, the head of Brazil's national office for combating violence
against women. She said that reports of gang rape remained relatively rare
in Rio and other parts of Brazil, but that cases of rape on public
transportation including buses and subway cars remained a pressing issue in
some large cities.

Two men were arrested over the weekend, one of whom, the police said,
confessed to the rape of the 21-year-old woman. The police said she had been
in Brazil on a student visa. A third suspect was arrested on Monday night.

In addition to setting off calls for better policing, the assault led to
comparisons in the Brazilian news media to recent episodes in India,
including the fatal beating and rape in December of a 23-year-old student on
a moving bus in New Delhi, and the gang rape of a Swiss tourist in March in
central India.

The number of female tourists to India has recently fallen by more than 30
percent as fears over sex crimes in the country persist, the Associated
Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India said on Monday.

The assault on the American woman here, police investigators said, began
early Saturday, just after midnight, when the attackers forced other
passengers out of the van, which picks up passengers along the street and
can seat about a dozen people. The woman was raped by all three men, who
took turns driving the vehicle, the police said. "It was a gang rape," said
Jayme da Costa Rosa Neto, a police official investigating the attack.

After the couple were freed about 6 a.m. Saturday and left at a bus station,
the woman was taken to two public hospitals, Miguel Couto and Rocha Maia,
for treatment including the administering of a cocktail of drugs containing
the morning-after pill, to prevent pregnancy, and other medications to
prevent sexually transmitted diseases.

The police said that the American victim had severe swelling around her
nose, and that her companion, 23, had been hit in the area around one of his
eyes. The woman left Brazil after registering the crime and undergoing
preliminary medical treatment, while her companion remained here, where he
is cooperating with the police, said Alexandre Braga, a senior police
investigator with Rio's special police unit for crimes involving tourists.

The two men who were apprehended over the weekend were arrested after
investigators tracked purchases made with the victims' credit cards, which
were stolen by the assailants, and examined images obtained from security
cameras at a filling station and convenience store where the men had stopped
to buy energy drinks and whiskey.

After news of the arrests was broadcast Sunday night on Fantástico, a widely
viewed news program on the Globo television network, other people here came
forward to tell the police that they recognized the assailants in connection
with other crimes, largely robberies, aboard what appeared to be the same
transport van. One 21-year-old Brazilian student said she had similarly been
held for an hour and raped by the same men on March 23, after boarding the
van.

The revelation of that previous episode seemed to have shaken the public
security forces here. The victim had quickly registered the case with the
police, but the authorities were said to have slowly investigated the claim.
Two police officials in charge of investigating the March 23 case were
abruptly removed from their posts on Monday.

Brazil has recently grappled with other high-profile cases of gang rape,
including one episode in 2012 in Queimadas
<http://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/noticia/2012/10/juiza-condena-seis-reus-por-
estupro-coletivo-em-queimadas-na-paraiba.html
<http://g1.globo.com/pb/paraiba/noticia/2012/10/juiza-condena-seis-reus-por-
estupro-coletivo-em-queimadas-na-paraiba.html> >, a city in the northeast
Paraíba State, in which six men were convicted of raping five women at a
birthday party. Two of the women were killed after recognizing their
attackers.

More broadly, reports of rape in Brazil have  climbed significantly
<http://www.nation.co.ke/News/world/Brazil-rape-statistics-skyrocket-after-l
aws-change/-/1068/1670688/-/view/printVersion/-/pjt360/-/index.html
<http://www.nation.co.ke/News/world/Brazil-rape-statistics-skyrocket-after-l
aws-change/-/1068/1670688/-/view/printVersion/-/pjt360/-/index.html> > since
2009, when the nation's criminal code was changed to expand the legal
definition of rape to include crimes involving anal penetration. More than
5,300 people, about 90 percent of whom are women, registered cases of rape
in the first six months of 2012, an increase of more than 150 percent since
2009.

Ms. Gonçalves, the federal official in charge of combating violence against
women, said much of the increase in reports of rape involved efforts to
encourage victims to report the crimes. "Women are more courageous about
coming forward with what happened to them than in the past," she said.

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