By Delisa Morris
Impunity Watch Reporter, South America
BRASILIA, Brazil — A judge in north-eastern Brazil has sentenced three people after they were convicted of killing a woman, and then eating her.
Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira was sentenced to 23 years in prison. His wife, Isabel Cristina Pires and his mistress, Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva were sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The trio made parties from a woman’s flesh and then sold the pastries to their neighbors. Additionally, they confessed to killing two more women and will be sentenced later. Their lawyer’s are planning an appeal against the Friday’s sentences.
The three were arrested in April 2012, in the city of Guaranhuns. Together they were convicted of murder, desecration and concealment of a body.
At the trial’s opening, Silveira said that he had “committed a horrible monstrous mistake,” according to local news channels.
Their victim was a homeless woman named as Jessica Camila da Silva. The victim was of no relation to Bruna Cristina Oliveira da Silva.
The trio allegedly lured the victims to their house by telling them that they were looking to hire a nanny.
They admitted to the court that they murdered and ate their victims as a part of a purification ritual. However, they denied that they sold the victims remains baked inside of ’empada’ pastries.
It is alleged that the trio passed off the human pastries as non-human meat to sell to their neighbors. It is also alleged that the trio fed the human remains to a child that was living with them.
Authorities found human remains in the garden behind the house that the three shared.
Police also found a book written by Jorge Beltrao Negromonte da Silveira titled “Revelations of a Schizophrenic”. In the 50-page book he detailed how he constantly heard voices and was fixated on killing women.
At the time of their arrest the trio claimed to be a part of a group that supported “the purification of the world, and the reduction of its population”.
For more information, please see:
BBC News – Brazil ‘cannibal trio’ sentenced – 15 Nov. 2014
9news – Brazilian cannibal trio who baked woman into pastries sentenced – 17 Nov. 2014
International Business Times – Trio Who Ran Brazilian ‘Cannibal Bakery’ Sentenced – 16 Nov. 2014
ITV News – Brazilian cannibalism trio jailed after making pies out of human flesh – 15 Nov. 2014
