A girl from Rio de Janeiro went viral final month when a video of her bringing her deceased uncle to a financial institution to have him signal mortgage paperwork surfaced on-line. Following the incident, Erika de Souza was arrested by the Brazilian police on fees of disrespecting a corpse and attempting to commit fraud. After spending 16 days on remand in jail, she lately spoke out for the primary time concerning the accusations.
“The times away from my household have been horrible, very troublesome. I didn’t realise my uncle was useless. It’s absurd what persons are saying. I’m not that particular person persons are speaking about; I’m not that monster,” Metro quoted De Souza, citing a Brazilian TV programme referred to as Fantastico.
As per the report, she confessed that she solely realised that her uncle Paulo Braga had handed away when an ambulance employee confirmed his demise. De Souza claims that her reminiscence of the afternoon on April 16 when she took Braga to log off on the £2,650 mortgage may be very blurry as she was on a capsule.
De Souza was taking a sleeping capsule referred to as Zolpidem as she was present process medical remedy. She informed Metro, “I don’t know if it was the impact of the drugs I had taken that day and I took every now and then.”
She said that her uncle had informed her that he would really feel higher if she held his head up earlier than they entered the financial institution collectively, and that despite the fact that he had lately been discharged from the hospital after contracting pneumonia, it was his thought to go to the financial institution.
De Souza mentioned, “He was impartial; he walked; he did what he wished; and he had a very good thoughts,” reported Metro. She added that Braga was not a each day wheelchair consumer, and he or she was by no means her carer.
A choose granted Erika bail, stating that her launch would not endanger public order. In addition they mentioned that De Souza has a ‘weakened’ state of psychological well being and the accountability of caring for her daughter with particular wants.
