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Status: Sentenced to 77 years in prison
on September 4,
2003
Anísio Ferreira de Sousa
is a Brazilian doctor and serial killer who ran a satanic ring
that killed children in Altamira, Brazil. He was convicted of the
murder of three children and the attempted murder of two others.
In total, the deaths of 19 children have been linked to the ring.
Crimes
Between 1989 and 1992 children disappeared
around the town of Altamira. The children were sexually mutilated
and murdered. De Sousa was sentenced to 77 years in prison. Two co-defendants
also received terms: Amailton Madeira Gomes (a former policeman)
was sentenced to 57 years, and Césio Brandão to 56 years in prison.
Another defendant, Valentina de Andrade, was acquitted.
Wikipedia.org
Sect leader
acquitted in Brazil mutilation case
Alertnet.org
Saturday, December 6, 2003
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, (Reuters) – A Brazilian
court on Friday acquitted the alleged leader of a Satanic sect of
the ritual mutilation and killing of boys in a remote Amazon town,
officials said.
The decision, by a 6 to 1 jury vote at the end
of a 17-days trial in Belem, Para state, caused tumult in the
packed courtroom with tears and protests from the victims’
families.
“Valentina de Andrade is acquitted of the
charges,” said judge Ronaldo Valle. Andrade, 72, fainted after the
judgment and received medical treatment in court.
Andrade’s defense lawyers made no comment but
the prosecution said it would appeal against the court’s decision.
Andrade was accused of the murder of three boys
and castration of two others in Altamira, 200 kms (125 miles) from
Beleme, between 1989 and 1993. She was said to have led the crimes
of a sect known as Superior Universal Alignment.
Defense lawyer Arnaldo Busato Filho presented
the court documents, including one from Parana state police in
southern Brazil, showing that Andrade wasn’t in Altamira when the
crimes were committed.
Prosecution evidence in the case included a
video of Andrade’s husband receiving a gun as a gift. “It has
bullets of gold to kill little vampires,” Andrade was heard saying.
A group representing the victims says Andrade
believes she was contacted by a medium who told her boys born
after 1981 were possessed by the devil.
Four other defendants have
already been sentenced in the case, which started in August, for
prison terms of 35 to 77 years. They included two doctors who were
involved in the removal of the genitals of several of the boys.
The four are all appealing against their
sentences.
The victims’ families say there were 19 victims
in all — boys aged between 8 and 13 who were kidnapped, tortured
or killed in Altamira. Not all the boys cases were brought to
trial this time because of insufficient evidence.
Doctor gets 56 years for Brazil sect killings
ReligionNewsBlog.com
Thursday September 11,
2003
BRASILIA, Brazil, (Reuters) – A Brazilian court
sentenced a doctor to 56 years in prison for the ritual mutilation
and killing of boys in a remote Amazon town more than a decade
ago, a prosecutor in the case said on Wednesday.
Cesio Brandao received the
sentence for the gruesome killings of three boys and the attempted
murder of a boy who escaped from his captors after having his
genitals removed.
Fourteen years after the first kidnappings and
mutilations, the trial is being closely followed as a test of
Brazil’s ability to bring justice to remote areas where local
elites rule.
“This is justice for a community that put their
trust in a doctor who went on to kill their children in Satanic
rituals,” said prosecutor Clodomir Araujo.
Another doctor involved in the killings, Anisio
Ferreira de Souza, was last week sentenced to 77 years in prison
for the ritual killing of three boys and the attempted murder of
two.
Two other men were sentenced last week to a
total 92 years in jail for the murders and mutilations.
A court was set to decide the case of Valentina
de Andrade, the fifth and final defendant, on Sept. 22.
She was jailed last week after she tried to
flee the country.
Prosecutors say Andrade is the leader of a sect
known as Superior Universal Alignment that was founded in
Argentina.
A group representing the victims says Andrade
believes she was contacted by a medium who told her boys born
after 1981 were possessed by the devil.
The victims’ families say there were more
victims — 19 in all.
They were aged between 8 and 13 and were
kidnapped, tortured or killed between 1989 and 1993 in the Amazon
town of Altamira.
Some had their eyes gouged out, wrists slit and
genitals cut off.
Doctor gets
77 years for Brazil sect killings
Reuters, USA
Friday, September 5, 2003
SAO PAULO: A Brazilian court sentenced a doctor
to 77 years in prison for the ritual mutilation and killing of
young boys in a remote Amazon town over a decade ago, a prosecutor
in the case said on Thursday.
Anisio Ferreira de Souza received 57 years for
the gruesome killings of three boys and 20 more years for the
attempted murder of two other boys who escaped from their captors
after having their sexual organs removed.
Thirteen years after the first killings, the
trial is being closely followed as a test of Brazil’s ability to
bring justice to remote areas where the law may be under the
control of the local elite.
“The success of this trial shows that the
impunity of years past is over ? things in Brazil are changing,”
said Clodomir Araujo, one of the prosecutors trying the case.
Local news broadcasts showed the aged Souza
sitting hunched before judge Ronaldo Valle. As he read the
sentence, the courtroom erupted into applause.
Araujo added that the two victims who had
escaped after being mutilated were critical witnesses in the case.
Another doctor involved in the killings, Sergio
Brandao, will be sentenced on Monday. Two other men were sentenced
last week to a total 92 years in jail for the murders and
mutilations.
The fifth defendant, sect leader
Valentina de Andrade, is set to be sentenced on September 22.
Earlier on Thursday, Andrade was jailed after
she tried to flee the country.
Valle ordered Andrade’s arrest after police
found she had tried to catch a flight to neighbouring Argentina on
Tuesday. She had checked in but had turned around after finding
she had to go through passport control, which is carried out by
federal police in Brazil.
Valle said this was evidence that she might
flee before her sentencing, court officials said. She was
handcuffed and escorted from the court by police in the Amazon
town of Belem and taken to a local women’s jail.
The prosecution says she is the leader of a
sect known as Superior Universal Alignment, which was founded in
Argentina.
A group representing the victims says Andrade
believes she was contacted by a medium who told her boys born
after 1981 were possessed by the devil.
A group representing the victims’ families says
there were many more victims ? 19 in total. They were aged between
8 and 13 and were tortured or killed between 1989 and 1993 in the
Amazon town of Altamira. Some had their eyes gouged out, wrists
slit and sexual organs cut off.
Brazilian men sentenced
over mutilations
HeraldSun.news.com.au
Sunday August 31, 2003
A court in Brazil has sentenced two men to
decades in prison for participating in the murder and ritual
mutilation of several young boys between 1989 and 1992.
A jury in Belem, 2400km northwest of Rio de
Janeiro, sentenced businessman Amailton Madeira Gomes, to 57 years
of prison for the murder of three children killed in the western
Amazon city of Altamira.
The jury also sentenced Carlos Alberto dos
Santos Lima, a former policeman, to 35 years of prison for the
killing of one of the boys and attempted homicide of two others,
the Para state justice court said on its Web site yesterday.
The lawyers of the convicted said they would
appeal the sentence, the court said.
Several boys disappeared between 1989 and 1992.
Six were found dead, with their genitals mutilated. Three more
were mutilated, but survived, and five are still listed as missing.
One of the surviving boys, now 23, said he
recognized Santos Lima as the man who raped him when he was 10,
and then took him into a forest where he was mutilated.
The defendants, who authorities said were
members of an alleged satanic group, the Superior Universal
Alignment sect, had only been charged with three murders and two
mutilations.
The sect’s leader, a 75-year-old woman named
Valentina Andrade, and two more defendants, both doctors, will be
tried separately on Tuesday, the court said.
Five on trial for child
ritual murders
Theaustralian.news.com.au
Friday August 29, 2003
Five influential members of Brazilian society
went on trial this week for the suspected torture, castration and
murder of five children, aged eight to 13, in satanic rites over a
decade ago.
Two mutilated survivors testified at the trial.
Prosecutors charged that 19 children used in
black magic rituals at Altamira, in Brazil’s Amazon region,
between 1989 and 1993. Five had been tortured, some castrated,
before being killed.
The witnesses were among five survivors of the
rituals who managed to escape, but not before also having their
genitalia mutilated.
They were aged between eight and 13 at the
time.
Brazil’s Special Secretary for Human Rights
Nilmario Miranda said the trial had ?symbolic? significance
because two doctors, two former policeman and a businessman were
involved.
The trial opened yesterday in Belem do Para,
some 688 kilometres east of Altamira, because the defendants are
influential members of Altamira society.
The five defendants, including Valentina de
Andrade, 75, the leader of the Superior Universal Alignment (LUS)
sect, are alleged to have used their influence in efforts to stop
the case from going to trial, intimidate victims and make evidence
disappear.
One of the witnesses to testify, Wandiclei
Pinheiro, now aged 22, was nine years old at the time of the
crimes, and managed to flee from his captors. He was expected to
identify former police officer Carlos Alberto Santos as a
participant in the ritual.
Although he has been given federal police
protection, Pinheiro said he had been threatened with death a
month ago if he testified.
The lawyer for the victims’ families, Clodomir
Araujo, said Thursday that Pinheiro’s testimony would be
?fundamental? in the jury’s decision.
Defendants have been split into two groups:
those accused of collaborating, including Santos and shopkeeper
Amailton Gomes, and the three main suspects.
Miranda warned overnight that justice in the
case would be only ?partial? since only one of seven probes
launched in the past 13 years had shed any light on the case.
Two physicians who allegedly participated in
the castrations, Cesio Brandao and Anisio de Souza, and the leader
of the group, are to be tried separately.
The cult believes that children born after 1981
are evil and must be expunged. Only adherents to the group are to
escape the pending destruction of the earth by escaping in a
spacecraft, it believes.
Sect leader
on trial in Brazil mutilation murders
SwissPolitics.org
Aug. 27, 2003
BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – A Brazilian sect
leader and five others accused of kidnapping boys in a remote
Amazon town, cutting off their genitals and sacrificially killing
them has gone on trial.
The trial, which comes 11 years after the
police investigation began, will be a test of Brazil’s ability to
bring justice to isolated areas where the legal system may be
under the sway of powerful locals.
It could also help unearth similar killings
elsewhere.
“This is a very important case, even if it
comes 11 years afterward,” the government’s Human Rights Secretary
Nilmario Miranda told Reuters on Wednesday from the court house in
the northeastern town of Belem. “We have to celebrate the fact
that there is a trial.”
Valentina de Andrade, the suspected leader of a
sect known as Superior Universal Alignment, two doctors, two
security guards and the son of a businessman in the town of
Altamira are charged with murder, attempted murder and torture.
They are accused of attacking five boys, three
of whom died and two of whom were mutilated but escaped. The two
surviving boys are expected to testify at the trial.
According to the families of the victims,
Andrade is said to have been contacted by a medium who told her
that boys born after 1981 were possessed by the devil.
A group representing the
families says there were many more victims — 19 poor young boys in
total aged between 8 and 13 who were horribly tortured or killed
between 1989 and 1993. Some had eyes gouged out, wrists slit and
sexual organs cut out.
Of the 19 victims, six died, five were never
found and the rest escaped, some after being drugged, bound and
mutilated.
Legal experts helping the victims’ families
have worked for years to bring the suspects to trial. Police
dropped many of the cases because of lack of evidence or
incompetence, according to Flavio Pachalski, a spokesman for the
families.
Saying justice could not be done in remote
Altamira, the defence pushed to move the trial to Para state
capital Belem, which was granted earlier this year. The trial
could go on for weeks.
Brazil-Argentine UFO Sect Suspected Of Mass
Murder
From Scott Corrales - StarMedia.com
April 10, 2001
Buenos Aires - While a
member of the "Lineamiento Universal Superior" (L.U.S. -- Superior
Universal Alignment) cult is being accused of crimes against
children, the cult's leader, Valentina de Andrade, is also under
suspicion. She is believed to be living in Argentina, according to
investigators in this country's capital.
In the city of Altamira,
State of Para, 13 children were raped, with their genitalia
mutilated for what appear to be ritual satanic purposes, and then
stabbed to death. Physician Anisio Ferreira de Souza, an alleged
member of the L.U.S. sect, is among the accused and is currently
in jail. He is also under suspicion of having created an
organization dedicated to murdering minors to steal their vital
organs, and of having committed crimes in the states of Parana,
Goias and Espiritu Santo.
Judge Luis Ernane Ferreira
Malto, of 3rd Crimilan Court in Altamira, mandated preventive
custody for other parties suspected of being involved--among them
another physician, a former corporal in the military police, and
Valentina de Andrade herself. "As of today, they shall be hunted
throughout the country and even abroad," stated the judge when
issuing the preventive custody decree.
In 1992, Brazilian justice
investigated Valentina and her group due to the disappearance of a
child in the island of Guaratuba, in the southern state of Parana,
where another children had become a victim to ritual crime.
Valentina and her followers avoided prosecution when suspicions
were proven to be inconsistent. From that moment on, the sect
ceased all public operations and its leader left Brazil for the
city of Londrina in Parana. Taking up residence in Buenos Aires,
she was followed only by a few faithful adepts, having been
deserted by hundreds of followers who had become aware of the
psychological manipulation and economic exploitation to which they
had been subjected under the Brazilian's leadership.
While former members who
denounced these abuses testified to the non-existence of ritual
crime or the kidnapping of children by Valentina de Andrade, they
did accuse her of having commited "coercive persuasion" after
forcing a couple to turn over their baby daughter to a childless
couple, and forcing other couples to leave their children with
grandparents or other guardians in order to "leave the planet"
aboard her spaceship. These children were believed to be "negative
energies" by Valentina, who advised that they be left behind.
Meanwhile, she portrayed herself as a lofty cosmic entity of "light,
love and truth" who had become incarnate on Earth to perform a
mission.
Valentina's preching
started in 1981 after having received allegedly extraterrestrial
messages through her former husband, Argentinean national Roberto
Olivera, her accomplice in the sect until 1987. Shortly after,
Valentina embarked upon her mission to spread the information she
had supposedly received from the cosmic beings. This task is
apparently pursued only by a few former members of her group,
after having separated themselves from Valentina. A confidential
source says the woman's "abuses betrayed the mission, using her
extraterrestrial-imparted knowledge for her benefit and not for
the common good, for which reason the teachings must be purified
from her distortions and rescued from the ridicule she created by
her ravings."
While Brazilian
authorities sought Valentina de Andrade in the country, hoping to
finde her in Sao Paulo, sources knowledgeable on UFOs in Argentina
claim that L.U.S.'s leader is spending her 70 years of age in
Buenos Aires under fair economic conditions, without working and
relying on the earnings of her followers. She changes residences
frequently and has not denied herself a trip to Las Vegas among
other ostentatious ways of fulfilling her "mission on Earth".
