Acquitted After Six Years in Preventive Detention, Brazilian Woman Dies of Cervical Cancer Two Months Later

Overview

• Damaris Vitória Kremer da Rosa, 26, was held in preventive custody from August 2019 and was acquitted by a jury in August 2025 for lack of evidence.
• She died in October 2025, 74 days after her acquittal, following a diagnosis of malignant cervical cancer made while she was in custody.
• In March 2025, after the diagnosis, a judge converted her detention to home confinement and ordered an ankle monitor; she began chemo‑radiotherapy in April.
• Two earlier bids for release in 2023 and November 2024 were denied because the medical papers submitted were prescriptions without exams or formal diagnoses, according to court and prosecutor records.
• During her detention she was transferred through multiple prisons and reported worsening symptoms, while her mother says she spent about a year in pain without adequate care; her then‑boyfriend was convicted for the killing and another suspect was later acquitted.