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Footage of Teen Girl’s Gang Rape by 30 Men in Brazil Circulates Online
Reports have emerged of a horrific gang rape involving a 16-year-old girl and 30 men. We asked a expert on gender violence to explain what life is like for women in Brazil.
The video of the attack was circulated on social media. Photo by Nemanja Glumac via Stocksy
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When the young woman now known as Nirbhaya was gang-raped on a Delhi bus in 2012, it took the Indian media five days before they reported on the case, and the international press took even longer.
Now, like India in 2012, another nation is convulsed by the aftershocks of another brutal gang rape case. According to reports from Brazil, the police in Rio de Janeiro are currently searching for more than 30 men suspected of drugging and raping a 16-year-old girl, and posting footage of the attack on social media. The Globe and Mail reports that the girl told police that she went to her boyfriend's house in a favela. The next thing she remembered was waking up naked in another house, surrounded by the men.
A 40-second video of the rape circulated on Twitter following the attacks. Local newspaper Folha De S.Paulo reports that that photographs were also posted online showing the girl's injured genitalia, with a caption reading: "They knocked her out, understand? Hahaha." Collective outrage has washed across Brazilian social media in response to the rape, under the hashtag #EstuproNuncaMais (Portuguese for "rape never again").
While Brazil actually has relatively strong laws when it comes to domestic and sexual violence, but experts point towards long-standing cultural views that normalize violence against women. According to official UN figures , women in Brazil are assaulted every 15 seconds. Legislative progress has been made in recent years with a new femicide law that aims to tackle the fact that, on average, 15 women a day are murdered in Brazil.
In 2015, four teen girls were gang raped, beaten, and stoned before being thrown off a cliff (one subsequently died of her injuries.) Meanwhile, a Brazilian lawmaker made international headlines for describing his colleague as "too ugly to rape." To find out more about the realities of the sexual violence faced by many Brazilian women, we spoke to Dr Polly Wilding , an expert in Latin American gender violence at the University of Leeds.
"Unfortunately, what's happened is not that surprising. Violence is really embedded in the lives of women throughout Brazil, in ways that interlink. On a personal level, you have sexual and domestic violence. But that intersects with broader forms of violence on a structural level—violence from the state, gangs and militias." Disturbingly, this case represents a broader trend of filming sexual assaults before disseminating them on Brazilian social media. "There's an increasing use of social media in the favelas, which becomes a way to reproduce sexual violence, because by filming them you're essentially violating them more than once."
A favela in Rio. Photo by Adrian Seah via Stocksy
Wilding highlights how violence is intersectional, sitting across wider structures of inequality in Brazilian life. "Violence against women in favelas is very prevalent, and these areas are often controlled by drug gangs or militias. For women living in these areas, it can be very difficult to report violence or get any kind of assistance, because often the militias controlling communities have links to the police." She tells me of a woman she met on a recent research trip to Brazil who'd been raped almost daily by a member of a local militia, but was unable to get justice because the perpetrator was affiliated with the police.
Meanwhile, aspects of Brazilian culture reinforce gendered myths about women who suffer violence. "There are these narratives about women enjoying violence, because in some way it shows that the perpetrator 'cares.' Meanwhile, huge double standards exist around sexuality, with men being able to have multiple sexual partners but if women being pilloried or beaten by their partners for doing the same." In some instances, women help to perpetuate a culture that blames victims. "I've spoken to Brazilian women who'll debate whether women who stay in abusive relationships 'bring it on themselves.'"
When women do come forward to report instances of sexual and domestic violence, cases often get dropped or actively ignored. "You hear of people going to police to report cases which never go any further. The reluctance to take things forward often comes from the police, because they know that given the complex power dynamics in the favelas, achieving a prosecution will be difficult." Meanwhile, if you don't have any charities or NGOs nearby who can help you, your options are limited—especially if you're living in one of the many communities in Brazil which are still controlled by gun gangs.
Ultimately, eradicating violence against women will require a total sea change in Brazilian life. "You can talk about changing cultural attitudes; having more training for police and health service professionals; more education in classrooms. You can invest in domestic violence shelters and support women leaving abusive situations.
"But unless you address the overall security situation in Brazil, and bring in a raft of measures—particularly in favelas—none of it will mean very much."
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Top club Santos signed a contract – now suspended – with the former Brazil striker who was convicted of rape in Italy in 2017
A public debate over sexual violence and rape culture has erupted in Brazil after one of its leading football clubs tried to recruit a convicted rapist to lead its attack.
Santos Futebol Clube – which has produced sporting legends including Pelé and Neymar – announced the highly controversial signing of the former Manchester City striker Robinho on 10 October.
The decision to bring the 36-year-old back to the club where he began his top-flight career was taken despite his being found guilty in 2017 of involvement in a gang rape that took place in Italy in 2013. Robinho, who is appealing against the conviction, was given a nine-year sentence in absentia which was suspended until the appeals process is complete.
Amid a wave of public anger, Santos’s president, Orlando Rollo, defended Robinho , claiming he was the victim of an inhumane “moral stoning”. “Everyone’s judging Robinho but nobody has even read the sentence.”
As Rollo spoke, however, a Brazilian journalist in Milan was busy unearthing the 2017 ruling by an Italian judge over the nightclub assault, details of which had not previously been published.
The judgment included transcripts considered by the court of a series of shocking exchanges captured by police investigators who were monitoring Robinho’s phone and car.
When excerpts of those intercepted messages were published by the Globo Esporte website on Friday morning they painted a damning picture of Robinho’s behaviour.
In one message to a friend Robinho refers to the assault, which took place in January 2013, saying: “I’m laughing because I couldn’t care less, the woman was completely drunk, she has no idea what happened.”
In another chat Robinho, who played for AC Milan at the time, insisted he did not have sex with the victim, an Albanian woman then in her early 20s.
“I saw you when you put your penis inside her mouth,” his friend replied, to which the footballer responded: “That doesn’t mean having sex.”
The messages caused further outrage in Brazil and apparently made Robinho’s return to Santos unsustainable after sponsors rebelled.
Later on Friday the striker announced his contract’s suspension and claimed he was being persecuted by the “demonic” press like Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro.
“Look at what they did to Bolsonaro … saying Bolsonaro was this and that, that he was a racist, a fascist, a killer – and the more they went for Bolsonaro the more popular he became,” Robinho said.
In an interview with the Brazilian outlet UOL he insisted he was “totally innocent” and suggested some of the messages had been mistranslated or taken out of context.
Robinho, who claims his “contact” was consensual, also blamed feminists for his predicament, telling an interviewer : “Unfortunately there’s this feminist movement … lots of women who aren’t even women.”
Indignation over Robinho’s actions – and what many saw as Santos’s attempts to downplay his crime – came as new figures underlined the scale of Brazil’s sexual violence crisis.
The Brazilian Forum on Public Security said 66,123 rapes were reported last year – one every eight minutes. Nearly 86% of victims were female and 60% under-14.
Ana Paula Araújo, the author of a new book called Abuse: Rape culture in Brazil , said those shocking figures were only the tip of the iceberg because 90% of crimes went unreported.
“This is a veritable plague and a silent one because quite often women normalize this [abuse], as do men. Society thinks this is the way things are … That sexual abuse often isn’t all that serious. And that’s why we continue to live in this culture which allows all these different kinds of abuses to be practised against us all, every day.”
Araújo, a television journalist, called Santos’s decision to hire Robinho “disgusting”.
“What struck me most about this case was the complete lack of shame this big Brazilian club … showed in signing a man who has been convicted of rape. He’s not only been charged. He’s already been convicted – and his signing was celebrated with pomp and circumstance.”
Araújo said Robinho’s intercepted messages captured perfectly the need to speak out against the “poisonous” culture of rape. “He doesn’t see himself as a criminal – and this is a very common mindset here in Brazil.”

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Brazil Registers More than 180 Rapes per Day, The Highest since 2009

More than half of the victims are less than 13 years old and 75% know the aggressor

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Brazil registered more than 66,000 cases of sexual violence in 2018, corresponding to more than 180 rapes per day. Among the victims, 54% were less than 13 years old.
It is the highest number since 2009 when rape crimes changed classification in the Brazilian Penal Code. The data are part of the 13th Public Safety Yearbook, produced by the Brazilian Public Safety Forum and released on Tuesday (10).
The statistics come from the security departments of all federative units. The increase in rape cases, with the largest share being female victims (82%), was accompanied by a growth in other forms of crime against women, such as femicide and domestic assault. Murders fell, however.
Historically, rape crimes have been poorly reported due to fear of retaliation by the perpetrator, fear of trial and embarrassment victims, and lack of trust in the institutions. "It's very common for people not to register rapes around the world," says Samira Bueno, executive director of the Forum.
According to the Forum report, only 7.5% of victims of sexual violence in Brazil notify the police - a percentage ranging from 16% to 32% in the United States.
The data indicate that 76% of the victims know their abuser.
Among femicides, the number of cases in which the killer was the partner or former partner of the victim is 89%.

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A doctor in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has been arrested after he was caught allegedly raping a woman while a cesarean section was being performed on her, according to police.
Giovanni Quintella Bezerra, 32, was arrested last week in the early hours of July 11 in Rio de Janeiro, at the Women's Hospital in Sao Joao de Meriti, according to a Daily Mirror report.
Suspicions over Bezerra's conduct had already been raised when he performed two C-sections earlier that day.
The nurses recorded him during his third C-section and were able to catch him allegedly assaulting the patient.
Following the arrest, Police said they were already investigating whether a similar attack happened to the first two patients and have said that another three women, treated on different days have, come forward to accuse him of abuse, according to a Mail Online report.
According to the Brazilian newspaper Globo , Bezerra was indicted for the rape of a vulnerable person after he was arrested. This penalty ranges from eight to 15 years in prison.
Bezerra had also raised suspicions by allegedly having heavily sedated women who were undergoing C-sections. Hospital employees were able to change the delivery room Bezerra used for his third C-section of the day in order to film him successfully.
To conduct the alleged act, Bezerra positioned himself at the woman's head as surgeons began work on delivering the baby.
The team, working only feet away from him, was unable to see the patient from the neck up. The alleged rape lasted for 10 minutes.
At the end of the alleged attack, Bezerra was also recorded cleaning the woman's mouth with gauze.
On Monday, the Regional Council of Medicine of the State of Rio de Janeiro launched an internal inquiry and opened proceedings to expel the medic.
"This behavior, in addition to deserving our repudiation, constitutes a crime, which must be punished in accordance with the legislation in force," the public agency said in a statement.
They added that at this time they are focusing on providing support to the alleged victim and her family.
Bezerra's defense said they are waiting to have access to all of the testimonies before addressing the allegations, "according to a report by Globo.
"The defense claims that it has not yet obtained full access to the testimonies and elements of evidence that were produced during the drawing up of the arrest warrant in flagrante delicto," his defense said, also confirming the accusations against Bezerra.
Newsweek has contacted Rio de Janeiro police for comment.
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