6-year-old girl calls police to report assault on mother

A six-year-old girl called the Military Police by dialing 190 to report the physical abuse her 42-year-old mother was suffering from her 46-year-old husband. During the call, the couple's daughter got the address wrong at times, but managed to provide the necessary information for the officers to go there, who arrested the aggressor in flagrante delicto.

The incident took place last Saturday, the 7th, in Bragança Paulista, in the interior of the State of São Paulo. The girl called the Military Police and informed them that she needed a police car urgently because her father had been attacking her mother since the previous day.

“There’s blood dripping here,” the child said on the call. “I’m very nervous (sic), I’m just a child,” the girl lamented.

The attacker was identified as Marcio Augusto Da Costa Silva. He was subjected to a custody hearing on Sunday, the 8th, and the arrest in flagrante delicto was converted to preventive, reported the Court of Justice of São Paulo. The report had not located his defense until the publication of this text.

The girl even got confused with the address, saying that the street was called Bragança Paulista (the name of the city). On the other end of the line, the attendant corrected her and said that it was the city.

The girl then asks her mother for her home address; in the background, the victim can be heard trying to dissuade the girl from calling the police. “Mom is fine, there’s no need to (call the police).” The child insists and asks her mother for her home address five times. She even gets angry with the woman. “Tell me the street, mom, damn it.”

In a statement, the State Public Security Secretariat (SSP-SP) reported that police officers found injuries and signs of blood on the victims (confirming the victim's account). "The police authority requested urgent protective measures for the woman," the statement said.

The case was registered as domestic violence and bodily harm at the Bragança Paulista Sectional Police Station.

Brazil hits record number of femicides and increase in rapes

The Public Security Map, released by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security this Wednesday, 11, reported that Brazil registered, last year, the highest number of cases of femicide in the historical series, which began in 2020.

The country recorded a total of 1,459 victims of this type of crime last year, an average of four deaths per day, in contexts of domestic or family violence or due to contempt and discrimination. The states with the highest increase rates were Piauí (42.86% higher than in 2023), Maranhão (38%), Paraná (34.57%) and Amazonas (30.43%).

The Minister of Justice and Public Security, Ricardo Lewandowski, attributed the increase in cases to a structural issue, given that, even with the drop in rates such as homicides, gender-based violence continues to rise.

“What I can say is that perhaps violence against women is something structural. Just like structural racism, perhaps it is an absolutely negative, intolerable characteristic of Brazilian society,” she said.

Lewandowski also stated that the federal government has invested in policies to reduce violence rates and promote support for women. One of the initiatives mentioned was the “Before It Happens” program, aimed at increasing the allocation of resources for actions to prevent violence against women.

The number of rape cases recorded in 2024 was the highest in the last five years, according to the Public Security Map. There were 83,114 such incidents last year, an average of 227 per day – 86% of the victims were female. In the last five years, the crime has increased by 25.8%.

The Southeast Region had a higher concentration of rapes in absolute numbers (29,007). However, the North Region leads with the highest rate in the country, with 62.44, followed by the Center-West (57.73).