The Terrible Truth of the Flourishing Baby Rape Video Trade in Brazil

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Children have been the greatest victims of rape in Brazil, according to the 2018 Atlas of Violence.

The study was produced by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea) and the Brazilian Forum of Public Safety (FBSP) and showed that 50.9 percent of reported rape cases in 2016 were committed against minors under 13 years of age.

As if this high rate were not sufficient, one piece of data raises concern regarding sexual crimes: the trade in videos of young children being raped, particularly babies.

Minister Damares Alves has been sounding the alarm on the matter. Responsible for the Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights of the Bolsonaro government, Damares says that never before have babies been raped as much in Brazil as they are today.

She reports that her team is continually working on multiple cases, examining videos and listening to reports. The minister’s attention is drawn to the details surrounding sexual violence.

Shocked by what she has seen, the minister reports that in November 2018, during the CPI on Child Abuse, she saw scenes of a 22-day-old girl being raped. At the time, the Federal Police arrested a man in Campo Grande (MS) who was holding 56 videos of rape of different babies, according to Damares.

“A child abuse video could cost between R$1,000 (US$250) and R$2,000 (US$500). If it’s a baby, it leaps to R$50,000 (US$12.500). The trade of videos of baby abuse in Brazil has driven this black market,” explains the minister.

In her battle against child sexual abuse, Damares points out that she continues to receive death threats. She says she is not afraid to die and rejects the terrorist groups, pedophiles, sexual exploiters of children and adolescents who have been wanting her dead to discontinue her work, since the trafficking of minors has also been the target of organized crime.

According to data released in May 2019 by the Ministry of Women, Family, and Human Rights, Dial 100 (Human Rights) received 76,216 denunciations last year involving children and adolescents, 17,093 of which related to sexual violence.

In the first months of this year alone, there have been 4,736 reports of sexual violence, said Damares.

The Federal Police has reinforced investigations with the support of the Secretariat for Children and Adolescents. In September 2017, a couple was arrested in the act at a motel in the city of Manaus (AM), on charges of rape against a seven-month-old baby.

The 24-year-old woman and a 45-year-old Peruvian doctor took the child to the motel, and an employee called the police after hearing the child crying in one of the rooms.

“I have seen some very powerful pictures. There’s a scene where after a man abuses a baby, he ejaculates onto the mother’s chest so that the child can suckle his sperm. Which means the mother was involved in the abuse. In Curitiba, in November of last year, a child only eight days old was raped and did not survive”.

The abuse of babies in Brazil draws attention to its cruelty. Damares also points out that there are discussion forums on Deepweb with titles such as Anal with Babies and Hot Babies. Moreover, there are messages exchanged between parents.

“One of the messages that impressed me very much was from a father telling a person that his wife was pregnant and that she was already making plans.”

He says this: “I would like to know what anesthetics and ointments I can use because I know that from six months, I can already do anal with it.” — “This is the reality of Brazil concerning our children. Our nation is sick,” laments Damares.

The Ministry of Health notes that there were 184,524 cases of sexual violence in the country between 2011 and 2017, of which more than 58,000 occurred against children (31.5 percent) and more than 83,000 (45 percent) against adolescents. Almost 70 percent of these cases occurred within the victim’s homes.

(Source: Pleno.News)