US EditionAu pair sentenced to 10 years in prison in Brendan Banfield double murder case
Juliana Peres Magalhães received the maximum 10-year sentence for her role in a double murder plot involving her employer, convicted IRS agent Brendan Banfield, despite prosecutors recommending time served.
- On Friday, Juliana Peres Magalhaes, the 25-year-old Brazilian au pair, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty and testifying against Brendan Banfield.
- Prosecutors say Magalhaes and Banfield began a relationship and plotted to kill Banfield's wife, framing a stranger in the lure and frame scheme.
- They created a fake profile on FetLife to lure Ryan to the house, where Magalhaes testified she shot him after Banfield stabbed Christine, with their child taken to the basement.
- After hearing victim impact statements Friday, Azcarate rejected the plea deal and sentenced Magalhaes to 10 years, saying, 'Your actions were deliberate, self-serving, and demonstrated a profound disregard for human life,' Azcarate said.
- Banfield was convicted earlier this month of aggravated murder and faces a mandatory life sentence with no chance of parole at his May 8 sentencing, while Magalhaes will receive credit for two years and five months served and may serve about four more years, Campbell said.
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Brazilian au pair gets 10-year sentence for killing man in murder plot against lover's wife
An au pair who schemed with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man received a 10-year prison sentence in the US on Friday.Prosecutors had recommended Juliana Peres Magalhães walk free after she pleaded guilty to a downgraded manslaughter charge in the February 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan.Instead of being tried for second-degree murder, she became their star witness, testifying that she had fatally shot Ryan as Virginia man Br…
Brazilian au pair jailed over double murder which saw one victim lured through fetish website
Juliana Peres Magalhaes shot Joseph Ryan dead while Brendan Banfield fatally stabbed his wife in the couple's home in Virginia in February 2023, but instead of being freed as she had hoped, she was handed the maximum sentence for the crime.
The nanny who devised an elaborate double homicide plan along with former IRS agent Brendan Banfield and then testified against her in court was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison, the maximum sentence and...
Au Pair Thought She'd Walk Free. Judge Gave Her 10 Years
A Brazilian au pair who admitted her role in a convoluted double-murder in Virginia might have walked free on Friday under a deal struck with prosecutors. Instead, a judge rejected the lenient offer and sentenced Juliana Peres Magalhaes to 10 years in prison, the maximum allowed, reports WTOP . "Let's get...
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