Posted on 09/07/2009 3:21:49 PM PDT by Steelfish
Man Held After Kissing Daughter
By Gary Duffy BBC News, Sao Paulo
Fortaleza has had problems with sex tourism in the past There is growing controversy in Brazil over the arrest of an Italian tourist held after kissing his eight-year-old daughter in public. Witnesses told police the man allegedly touched the girl in an intimate way.
Under a strict new law partly designed to combat child sex abuse in South America's largest country, he faces eight to 15 years in jail if convicted. The unnamed man has been in custody for almost a week. A new attempt to secure his release this weekend failed. His Brazilian wife says the case is all a misunderstanding, while staff at the resort where the incident took place have been reported as saying they saw nothing unusual. 'Misunderstanding'
The Italian tourist, a 48-year-old businessman, was arrested on 2 September in the coastal city of Fortaleza, in the north-east of Brazil, where he was on holiday with his wife and daughter. He was reported to the police by a Brazilian couple who claimed he had been touching a young girl inappropriately and had kissed her on the mouth while they were both at a swimming pool close to the beach in full view of other tourists.
It appears the couple who made the allegations did not know that the man was with his daughter. The north-east of Brazil has for some years had a problem of paedophiles travelling to the area, often from overseas, and strongly-worded warnings about the penalties for exploiting children are posted in most hotels.
However the wife of the arrested tourist says it was all a misunderstanding by witnesses who had misinterpreted seeing a foreign white man with a young darker-skinned girl.
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Sounds like an application of zero-tolerance.
Yes, the situation did seem very familiar ~ guy’s lucky he didn’t have a bottle of aspirins around ~
Or that the appropriate bribe money has not yet been paid.
Wait a second. isn’t this the country of Carnavale? Where women run around naked?
This is very odd in a country that seems to celebrate perversity
Don’t you usually hold someone while you’re kissing them, not after?
What be Daughte?
Mrs. Brown had a lovely daughte.
Cousin Vicki: I’m going steady, and I French kiss.
Audrey: So, everybody does that.
Cousin Vicki: Yeah, but Daddy says I’m the best at it.
...on the mouth?!
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