Overview

• Officers forced entry at the listed address in Gaspar, Santa Catarina, detaining a 29-year-old and finding the 34-year-old victim in shock with injuries to her neck, face, and breasts.
• The Military Police were alerted after a convenience-store employee discovered a toilet-paper note reading “Estou em cárcere privado, 190” alongside the victim’s address.
• The woman said she had reunited with the suspect three days earlier after six months apart and wrote the plea during a bathroom stop after saying she would buy cigarettes.
• In statements to police, she reported assaults, death threats, the destruction of her phone, coercion into sex, and threats to disseminate a non-consensual intimate video.
• Authorities report the suspect has 44 prior police records including protective measures, and he was taken to a station for booking with an expected custody hearing to follow.