Overview
- The Tribunal de Justiça do Paraná increased the moral-damages award from about R$24,000 to roughly R$37,000 after an appeal by the state prosecutor’s office.
- The couple had lived with the 10-year-old for about four months before leaving him at the Curitiba court building without explaining the breakup, according to the MP-PR.
- Prosecutors report the child returned to institutional care and developed anxiety, withdrawal, aggression, and low self-esteem following the abandonment.
- Authorities say the judgment is among the first in Paraná to grant moral damages for a desistence during the estágio de convivência phase.
- The case is under judicial secrecy, identities were not disclosed, and the new decision remains subject to further appeal.