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Brazil Criminalizes Vicarious Violence with Sentences of 20 to 40 Years

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Vicarious violence, that is, the killing of children by the aggressor as a form of attack against the woman, lacked its own specific legal definition until now, when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a law creating the specific crime of vicarious violence with penalties of between 20 and 40 years in prison. The approval of this measure comes just months after a father shot his eight- and twelve-year-old children before committ…
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Vicarious violence, that is, the killing of children by the aggressor as a form of attack against the woman, lacked its own specific legal definition until now, when Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signed a law creating the specific crime of vicarious violence with penalties of between 20 and 40 years in prison. The approval of this measure comes just months after a father shot his eight- and twelve-year-old children before committ…

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EFEMINISTA broke the news in on Friday, April 10, 2026.
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