The woman who cursed and assaulted a gay couple in a bakery in downtown São Paulo was condemned over 2 years in prison by racial injury . The conviction was issued on Thursday (10).
The case occurred in February 2024. Jaqueline Santos Ludovico was caught uttering homophobic offenses Rafael Gonzaga and Adrian Grasson, who arrived at the establishment after a party.
Among several curses, the woman tells the couple: “I’m male than you” “I took blood from you was little” and “Go ****”.
Jaqueline was sentenced to 2 years and 4 months of imprisonment and payment of a fine. However, she was acquitted of accusations of bodily injury, despite the denunciation of aggression to the couple.
Despite the conviction, the woman will not serve the penalty in prison .
In the sentence, Judge Ana Helena Rodrigues Mellim imposed the provision of services to the community and payment of 12 minimum wages to the victims. “I replace the deprivation of liberty imposed by the restrictive penalty of rights consistent in the provision of services to the community, for the period of conviction in a place to be fixed by the execution court, as well as by the monetary benefit, namely 02 minimum wages,” determined the magistrate.
The convict will have to pay a fine of two minimum wages due to the cash benefit, five more minimum wages for each victim for moral damages . In addition, the judge determined the payment of 100 Fiscal Unit of the State of São Paulo (Ufesps), the equivalent of R $ 3.7 thousand. The total compensation is about R $ 21.9 thousand .
Jaqueline’s defense can still appeal from the conviction. THE CNN Try to contact the convicted representatives for a position.
Rafael Gonzaga, in a statement, states that the Condemnation is a victory Not only for the couple, but for the entire LGBT+community. Read below in full:
“This condemnation is a victory, not only for us, but for the entire LGBT+community. People do not believe that bringing LGBTFobia to justice will give something because we get used to seeing this kind of behavior being relativized all the time. But if we fight for homotransphobia to be recognized while the crime it is, it will have to be treated like this. Of crime, the condemnation has the weight of recognition and legitimacy of our struggle and our pain. Neither the Brazilian state we accept more relativization for this kind of barbaric and prejudiced behavior. Supported by our judiciary.
Remember the case
On social networks, he went viral a video that records a confusion in a bakery in downtown São Paulo. A woman shouts homophobic offenses and assaults a couple of men who arrived at the establishment after a party.
In an interview with CNN one of the victims, Rafael Gonzaga, says he lived a nightmare. “No one deserves to go through such a situation. No one deserves to live what we lived. I was happy, just wanting to rest and I got home with a bloody face,” he says.
Rafael says the confusion began with an attempt to park the car at the establishment. The men awaited the landing of passengers: a man and two women to enter the vacancy. The victim says that the alleged aggressor crossed her arms at the place of the vacancy and, at this moment, was removed by the man who accompanied her to the side of the vehicle.
The woman again returned to front of the car and pushed the rearview mirror of the victim’s vehicle and said, “It’s just you to close this me *** that can park.” After being contained by the man who accompanied her, she shouted homophobic phrases.
The alleged aggressor shot a traffic cone toward the couple and the violent behavior extended into the bakery. “She came up with us with a series of offenses, under the underlone and homophobic imprint,” says Rafael
The victims report kicks and slaps by the alleged aggressor, who did not have the identification disclosed by the police.
This content was originally published in a woman who cursed gay couple in bakery of SP is convicted of racial injury on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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