Overview

• Judge Simone de Faria Ferraz of the São Gonçalo criminal court imposed 12-year prison terms on Nancy and Kerollen Cunha Ferreira.
• Each victim will receive 20,000 reais in compensation, and the pair are barred from posting similar content or contacting the children.
• The defendants remain free pending appeal, and their lawyer said they will challenge the ruling before the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice.
• The case centered on videos in which a banana and a toy monkey were given to two Black children, ages 9 and 10, as supposed humor.
• The court cited concrete harm, noting bullying at school, the boy abandoning football ambitions, and the girl needing psychological support, while rejecting the influencers’ claims of following a TikTok “trend.”