Overview

• Maria Clara Aguirre Lisboa, 5, was found on October 14 in a shallow, concreted grave in the backyard of the home where she lived in Itapetininga.
• Forensic analysis indicates she had been buried for about 20 days, placing the death in late September, with the body concealed roughly two days after the killing.
• The mother, Luiza Aguirre Barbosa da Silva, and stepfather, Rodrigo Ribeiro Machado, were located on October 8 and confessed during police interrogation.
• After a custody hearing on October 15, the court maintained preventive detention and transferred her mother to Votorantim and the stepfather to Capão Bonito.
• Police cite frequent abuse and note an audio in which the stepfather told the biological father the child was dead; the case advanced after the paternal grandmother alerted the Conselho Tutelar, and the girl was buried without a wake.