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Mother and Female Partner Rip Off Young Boy’s Penis, Then Behead Him, Police Say

Hank Berrien

A Brazilian woman with a nine-year-old son allegedly conspired with her female partner roughly a year ago to use “rudimentary tools” to tear the penis off the boy because he supposedly wanted to be a girl, then recently murdered him by reportedly stabbing him over a dozen times and removing all the skin from his face before they beheaded him.

According to The Sun, the mother, Rosana Cândido, 27, and her partner Kacyla Pessoa, 28, of Brazil, “were said to have even used a knife to try to gouge out the boy’s eyeballs to prevent possible recognition.” The Sun added that the women tried to burn the boy’s body on a barbecue, but that failed, so they stuffed parts of his body in a suitcase and deposited it in a sewer. Other parts of the body were found in two backpacks at their home.

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