UMUARAMA, BRAZIL – SEPTEMBER, 2017 On 26 September 2017, 6-year-old Tábata Crespilho da Rosa went to school accompanied by her older brother, as she does every weekday. Her brother left her at the school entrance gate. That was the last time she was seen alive. When the girl failed to turn up at school, the police were immediately alerted and launched an investigation. CCTV footage confirmed her worst fears, someone had abducted her.

The video was analysed and detailed police work led them to 36-year-old Eduardo Leonildo da Silva. When the police arrived at his home, he confessed that he had kidnapped the girl, had sex with her and killed her. He had to be taken by a security escort to a police station in another town because local people tried to break into the police station and lynch him.

Da Silva was sentenced to 41 years in prison for this crime. It was not the first time he had committed a similar act. In 2010, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for the murder of his 15-year-old girlfriend Ana Maria Rosenes. She was found dead in the Frei Vito neighbourhood. Da Silva confessed to having sexual intercourse with her and then hitting her in the head with a rock.