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A 14-year-old boy was forced to be raped by a man who entered his house at night.
The accused was Ismael Simões, who was the brother-in-law of the boy.
He was arrested for a year and a half, but he always claimed that he was completely innocent.
When my daughter was in jail, she was 18 years old, and my son was sent to jail all day long.
When I got to jail, I was alone.
The house where everything happened was inside a small corner of the street.
The boy was told that he was tied and attacked by mosquitoes and butterflies, but there were relatives nearby who never saw or heard anything suspicious.
It was the case of the man who still lives there.
I never saw anything like that.
That's why I don't think that's what we're talking about.
It was a little bit like that, because I saw or I didn't know.
I was tied up and I didn't know anything.
At that time, did you distrust what she said?
A little bit.
Now I don't know what she said, I don't know if it's true or not.
But she was a little bit naive and she told me stories like that.
Maybe not, I don't know, but now I don't know.
I can't say that I'm innocent, I don't know.
I can't be with anyone.
Uncle was an important testimony, precisely because he lived next to her and never saw anything suspicious.
But strangely, he was not interrogated by anyone, or even called to speak in court.
The case was reported by two educational assistants from the school where the boy was walking.
I started by the old neighborhoods that were in the process.
But the past 12 years were natural that had changed from home.
In a small land, it was not difficult to find them.
And with my imagination, I want a lot of peace and rest.
I have four children.
I don't even want to see them.
No one, no one else wanted to speak.
But at the time, they reported that the boy appeared in the classes with black knots or loose skin.
Sometimes he even had to be taken to the doctor's post.
He started by saying that he fell off the bike.
Then he told the boy that he was beaten up until he was beaten up.
The boy told the boy that he entered at night by the window of the room,
but that he sometimes entered by the door because he had the key at home.
Then another preplexity appeared. So if the boy could easily use the door,
it would make no sense to enter by the window.
The truth is that the boy was unwell.
He was 14 years old and lived practically alone with a nine-year-old sister
and her maternal grandmother, who was sick and was often out.
Her mother was a guard on the crosswalk,
but had been transferred to another land and only came home in the leaves.
The father was also at home sometimes.
The father's absence was compensated by the other family members who lived inside the house.
Her maternal grandmother lived in the house of the boy,
so she could also have been a witness,
but she was never heard by the court and died.
Then there were still paternal grandparents who lived 10 meters away from home.
But they were also not witness because no one called them.
I came here because of what happened to Ismael.
I really wanted to talk to Marina.
I don't know anything about that.
Nothing? I'm sorry, I don't know anything about that.
Do you remember what happened to Ismael?
I almost remember.
How?
I almost remember.
But do you remember what happened to Marina, who accused Ismael?
I don't remember.
If she told me, if she told me, I wouldn't have thought about it.
But do you remember that Ismael was arrested?
Oh my God, give me the rest of my head.
I can't take it anymore.
Can I give you the rent, Marina?
I can't. I don't know, darling, I don't know.
No dimvish, not at all.
Nothing about my life, I don't know anything.
I just ingredients myself.
No family at all.
No one here.
You're my love.
Listen,
The family got grief on,
and is now left to the side.
But it was hard to reopen a matter that caused so much suffering
and to have to discover the danger that today is a woman
it was through the phone that we found
Tamarina accused her brother-in-law of rape, didn't she?
Yes
And, meanwhile, she verified that it was all a lie
Yes
And I'm doing a job precisely about judicial errors
and I was very interested in understanding what happened to Tamarina
What did she lie about at that time?
She was a girl, wasn't she?
Yes, but I don't want to say that it was already a long time ago
and I think it was already a long time ago and many people have forgotten
and I think it was better to let it be and nothing else
But Tamarina confirms that at the time it was a lie
that is, her brother-in-law didn't rape her, is that it?
I can't confirm anything, I won't say anything
Tamarina has the right to forget
but this cannot prevent Tamarina from telling the case
in order to try to understand better what happened
Before being arrested, the only crime of Ismael
was going to be demotorized without having a letter
When the genius made a mistake to be interrogated
he thought it was for that
And I sat in a chair like I'm now in front of you
You had to speak like this, you had to, it's my problem
It was the name of my brothers
But in the end they said the name of Tamarina
They said, I don't know this, it's Tamarina's brother
I can't see it, I'm sorry, tell me
I can't see it, no
I saw it, I said it was easy to solve, but like this
I said it was easy to solve, it's not easy to solve
It's easy to analyze, you have to think about what you want
The court refused the request for the analysis
It also didn't inspect the victim's house
nor collected the clothes for the analysis
After the interrogation, Ismael was put in a preventive prison
and was left without knowing anything
In the process there was a genealogy report
The rapariga had been taken to the hospital
by one of the school staff
but the tests were inconclusive
There were no signs of trauma
nor found sperm vestiges
This could be because the victim was caught
which makes the vestiges disappear
or it could have been used as a preservative
but it could also mean that that night
nothing happened
The case of Ismael
The only safe fact that existed was the date
The rapariga guaranteed to be seen on the night of May 18
but for that night Ismael had a strong test of his favor
The test was related to football
At the time, Ismael was a guard in a local team
who trained two or three times a week
and played on Sunday
There was a game where he got injured from a leg
He was even transported to Santarei Hospital
He didn't have a fracture
but he continued with pain
and had to do physiotherapy for a while
but the pain continued
He had a new radiography and a fracture
How can you remember so well
regarding a specific player?
As a coach, the players never had serious injuries
in any case
And then, because he had a problem
and I went to explain in the court
that he had an injury
and that he had a leg injury
The radiographies and the medical records
confirmed the dates
On April 26, the injury was healed
He was followed for 10 days of physiotherapy
and the injury was put on May 6
Normally, in cases of this type
the injury lasts at least three weeks
It happens that 12 days later
Ismael was accused of having raped Marina
There were several friends and footballers
who testified about the leg being injured
and one of them even remembered
where Ismael was that night
I know that on that day
he was at home
and he was at Patrícia
We saw Samus Bar
We had a good time
and we went to see the cops
He took her home
I think he left
because everyone said he stayed at home
How could he be at that night?
And why did he go to jail?
Because he had a leg injury
But how are you sure about that night?
And not the day before or the day after?
How are you sure about that night?
Because it was that night
When things happen, it's a bomb
That day gets recorded
You can't run away from that day
You could have cooked on the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
But when it happens, it was that day
Wait, that day can't be the day he was with me
It can't be, it can't be
Even so, Ismael could have left
after going to the café
But it was unlikely
to be able to walk a few kilometres
to Marina's house with the leg injured
When the judgement came
Marina was a little bit scared
They asked her what Ismael had done
She said she didn't know
They asked if she was using preservatives
She also didn't know
Then she went into a contradiction
about virginity
When she made the complaint
she said that the first time she had sex
she hadn't been with Ismael
But in judgement
she knew what was going on
In this case
it's natural to have the power to talk
But it was strange that a 14-year-old boy
had not fixed any detail
of the supposed rape
They asked if he was spying
She said yes
They asked if it was with the preservatives
She said yes
They asked if she had kissed
She said no
This was even more strange
because Marina had been raped by Ismael
many times before that night
I would have killed her in this hole
This was done before I had been beaten
She said no
I'm going to ask you more than once. Are you sure?
But I have an operation. I can show you.
It's not as small as that.
It's not as small as that. It's an operation.
It doesn't have a base.
And she said she didn't have anything.
And you already had that at the time of the attacks?
Everything. She said she didn't have anything.
She didn't have anything.
For God's sake.
Previously, there had been another disturbing case.
Ismael was arrested a month ago,
when the boy revealed that he was also raped by his own father.
Good afternoon, sir. I'm sorry to change.
The father was arrested for five months,
until his daughter took the case away,
explaining that he had lied.
The court didn't have another remedy,
if not to release the father.
He didn't have anything.
She accused...
But there's nothing.
She accused him of it.
Yes.
She was released from the police station,
because she didn't have anything to do with it.
She even said...
She said it was an attack on her,
because she wanted to do it.
She wanted to send him away, but he didn't want to.
He didn't want to call, he didn't know anything.
He didn't have any problems.
He didn't even know if she was there.
He didn't know if she was there,
because she was working for more than 18 km.
She worked in Macinta and few times went to her house.
Today she lives alone in the misery
and wants to put a stone on the case.
That's what justice did too.
She filed the case against her father
and never talked about it again.
Back to Ismael,
summarizing scientific evidence
only existed in the genealogy report,
which was inconclusive.
Then there was the word from Rappariga,
but it was contradictory
and before that the father had already accused
of falsehood.
And there was also a psychological report
that talked about fertile imagination,
compulsively liar and unadaptated,
but the court did not authorize
any evidence service,
only because it was in the process of minor risk
that it was a different process.
On the Ismael side,
there were much safer evidence,
the gene on the leg, the marks on the body
and testimonies of his steps that night.
Even so, it was condemned.
I went to jail because of a case of violence.
Then they saw that it was a lie
and accused me of having a lower sex,
a softer vitro.
I was no longer a rapist,
I had sex with a minor,
but no, not even that.
No, I didn't do that.
Therefore, I didn't do it in my place there.
I didn't do it in my place there.
And it ended up being condemned?
Fifty-six months in jail.
Fifty and a half.
But is it difficult for people who are out there
to understand how three judges,
when they are in a person without evidence,
or, I mean, the evidence existed,
it was Marina?
Enough.
At that time it was enough.
I didn't believe it.
If they told me that,
if they told me that story,
if they told me my story,
I wouldn't believe it, I wouldn't believe it.
When a new prosecutor from the public ministry
was put in the court,
he saw the case with other eyes.
He made a resource,
explaining that Marina's story
was neither verusimil nor coherent,
but marked by imprecision
and contradiction.
He asked for the judgment to be repeated,
but these things, in justice,
took a long time,
and Ismael remained in jail.
Ismael was in jail for more than a year,
when he told his case to a TV show,
and Ismael came back completely unexpected.
Ismael, have you ever done anything?
No.
The only thing he didn't do,
was to put me in jail.
But the rest didn't do anything.
It was all invented.
I don't know where I came from, I invented everything.
I invented everything.
But did you tell this story to a lot of people?
I did.
I even wrote it on paper, so as not to forget it.
The signs of abuse have already come from behind,
when Marina started teaching the archbishop
that the father beat her,
and he would make a purpose to believe in what he said.
He would make a purpose,
or he would give him a purpose,
and he would make a purpose,
and he would always make a purpose,
and he would give him a purpose.
What did you tell them at school?
At first, I told them that I was my father,
but then they told me that I was my brother-in-law.
Marina's mother, the boy's mother,
appeared to confirm what was already suspicious.
Marina knows my antics.
Marina knows my antics,
she doesn't get angry,
she doesn't get angry.
She was nine years old,
who lived in the same house with Marina.
In the judgment,
she said that she saw the rabbit tied with ropes,
but that later she didn't see anything else
because she had fallen asleep,
which is unusual.
I asked Marina,
why are you sitting in a house like this?
I asked the bike driver,
and the other day I asked the same thing.
She said she had fallen asleep.
I asked her,
why did you go home?
Didn't you see this coming in?
No.
But then in court,
you said that this was coming in?
Yes.
A rope?
Yes.
They combined the two,
saying what they were going to tell.
It was.
The most extraordinary thing is that,
two months later,
in a new program,
Marina gave a fifth version of the facts.
That night,
before you went to the hospital,
what happened?
It happened that my father went home,
and it was already night.
And then what happened?
Oh, well...
I don't know.
What about Ismael?
How did Ismael get into this story?
It was my father who said that.
Who said what?
It was Ismael.
Who was Ismael?
Yes.
And you never wanted to tell in court
what was really going to happen?
What had really happened?
I wanted to tell the truth,
but I was never capable
because I was afraid that people wouldn't believe it.
And I also didn't want to see my father
or my mother in law suffer.
One month after the TV show,
Ismael was released.
The court declared that the evidence
were insufficient,
and the case was thus fixed.
I decided to try again to talk to Marina
in search of explanations,
but what happened was a total surprise.
It was a sixth version of the facts.
What I needed to understand was
when did Marina tell the truth?
Was it in court or in the TV show?
Well,
I should have been there
for the rest of my life,
but unfortunately,
things sometimes don't go as we want,
and there are some requests from my mother,
and not only that,
at least when my mother had a baby,
she even asked me to do it,
to take my child out of the prison,
and it was because of God's trust.
And it may be a lie,
but that's it.
But the things that Marina said in court
when a person reads that in the process,
it gets a little weird,
because they say some things, then they say others,
it's not very specific, right?
It's normal,
if he was arrested,
it's because there were
a lot of truth,
people didn't condemn us
for committing,
and right away,
what do you mean?
But Marina also accused her father,
and then she removed the word, right?
Yes, yes, yes, that's a lie,
that's my father's lie.
But then, in what way,
do we have to believe?
Well, that's what it is.
Believe in what you want, right?
We're looking to know
what the mother and the younger sister
of Marina say now,
they were nine years old
when they were arrested,
but both one and the other
don't want to add anything
to what they said on TV.
All this was also brutal
for the older sister of Marina,
who is the wife of Ismael.
She was pregnant when the husband was arrested,
and from then on,
the ties with the family of origin
have never been repeated.
There are years that don't know
about the parents,
nor about the other brothers,
and Marina's sister never said anything.
If I have to say that
she still maintains that version
and is scared?
No.
No.
She doesn't scare me
or anything.
Why?
Because I believe in my husband.
I believe 100%
that
he never touched
any of them.
Why did Marina
have to do this?
Yes.
It was the only thing I liked
that she told me
if one day I had contact with her,
it was the only thing I wanted
and it was the reason
why she did it.
Why?
I don't know until today.
I don't know the reason
for all this.
And have you already thought
how it will be later
to tell this to your children?
Well, this is a...
one of the problems
that this story brought me.
Don't think of hiding it to my children.
I think of telling them
in their moment, in their height.
And just in order to tell
my children
and just in order to know
why,
I think I can close
this book
to never open it again.
The family eradicated
in Spain, in the Canary Islands.
Patricia worked in cleaning
Ismael in civil construction,
but they are uncertain jobs
that leave them
in big financial afflictions.
They could be more evicted
if Ismael had advanced
with an undiminished request,
but at the time there was no enthusiasm
and even if he wanted,
he had no money for lawyers
and judicial costs.
Do you think justice has difficulty
in giving the third arm?
It's not an opportunity.
They are powerful.
They can do what they want.
They don't give the third arm
because they don't want it.
Because they are human beings.
So they have children.
It happens only to my children.
Take care of my father.
Take care of my mother.
Take care of yourself.
What happens to my children?
I have no money for that.
I give the third arm.
I'm sorry.
At least I said,
I'm sorry.
It's not my fault.
It's my family.
The struggle for Ismael's innocence
deeply affected this family.
His father was a canary
and his mother was a domestic worker.
Neither they
nor the other children
had the money to pay the defense lawyer.
They were the guys
who made a bank loan
that Ismael spent years
until he was able to pay them.
One thing I don't know
is when I came
from the police station
to see this.
It was my father crying.
The most difficult thing
was to see my father crying.
I had never seen my father crying.
The police cases
at the time were still good.
I went to the police station
to see the lawyer.
We will never know
if justice recognized the criminal
by itself
or because of the TV show.
And apparently,
so poorly investigated,
we don't know
where the truth is.
If it wasn't Ismael,
it would be his father,
but it could also have been
another man.
Or it could have been
everything.
The truth is that an innocent man
was accused, arrested
and sentenced
without a single credible evidence.
It's true that justice
ended up making the mistake,
but I think it's always
a lack of confidence.
For other people,
I have a calm conscience,
I sleep well, I rest well.
My family, my friends who know the truth,
it's what matters.
And mainly,
two young children grow up
to tell the truth.
Your father was arrested.
I think they have a conscience and a certainty.
I put my father's hand on his shoulder.
But you feel like a free man.
Hey, no,
hey, no,
No,
And that's it for you.
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