A jury in Brazil has acquitted a mother who confessed she stabbed and clubbed her boyfriend to death and then cut off his genitals after she says she found him sexually assaulting her pre-teen daughter.
Erica Pereira da Silveria Vicente confessed to killing her partner Everton Amaro da Silva in Minas Gerais, Brazil, but said she only did it to protect her 11-year-old daughter, according to the Brazilian daily newspaper Estado de Minas.
After she found salacious texts the predator sent to the girl, she heard her screaming and rushed into a room to find him on top of her trying to forcibly have sex, according to police reports.
The mom allegedly called him into the living room for a beer, spiked his drink with Klonopin, a tranquilizer typically used for panic attacks and seizures, and then stabbed and clubbed him while he was unconscious.
Prosecutors alleged the planning
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