Flordelis dos Santos de Souza, 61-year-old pastor and former Brazilian deputy sheriff, was sentenced to 50 years in prison in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday, charged with murdering her husband with complicity in some of the couple’s 55 children.
Pastor Anderson do Carmo died after being shot 30 times on June 16, 2019 at the door of the house where he lived, in Niterói, a city in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro.
Flordelis attributed the vicar’s murder to a robbery committed by several men who, according to the former sheriff’s deputy, had chased them on a motorcycle.
However, investigations by the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the police revealed that the then deputy had planned her husband’s death in consultation with several of their children, in a plan that had begun in 2018 and which went through several failed poisonings.
The prosecutor’s office insisted that the murder charges were motivated by financial disputes and charged seven of the pastor’s 55 children – 51 of whom were adopted.
Since then, two of the couple’s children have already been sentenced in November last year to prison terms of 33 years and two months and seven years and six months.
The trial against Flordelis started on Monday and lasted seven days, the last session of which lasted 24 hours.
The evangelical minister was sentenced to 50 years and 28 days in prison for triple murder, attempted murder, use of false documents and armed criminal association.
His biological daughter Simone dos Santos Rodrigues was also sentenced to 31 years and four months in prison for murder, attempted murder and armed criminal association.
Other of his accused children and his granddaughter Rayane dos Santos were acquitted.
Flordelis dos Santos de Souza was arrested in August 2021, two days after Congress left her without parliamentary immunity.
Source: DN
