The Rio Civil Police are working to identify the driver who took the 12-year-old teenager and the 25-year-old man, suspected of keeping her trapped in a kitchenette, to Maranhão. A race would have cost R$ 4,000 and was not ordered through a transport app.
Investigators discovered that, on the day of the disappearance, the girl left school in Sepetiba and took a bus to meet the two in another location in the west zone of Rio.
Delegate Ellen Souto, from the Whereabouts Discovery Police Station, spoke about the characteristics of the driver in an interview with Record TV: “We know that he is a white man, 23 years old, and the car was white”.
Girl talks to suspect for two years
Responsible for the investigation, Ellen Souto also said that the young woman was not aware of the true age of the boy who kept in touch through social networks.
“She had been talking to him through a short video exchange app since she was 10 years old. Therefore, she had known him virtually for two years, and the girl thought he was 16 years old. This is the illusion of social networks. People He presents himself as he wants, and, if you don’t have the maturity, believe, as in fact she believed. She is 12 years old, and he is a man, 25. She was convinced that he was 16, not least because he looks be younger”.
A girl returned yesterday to Rio de Janeiro, after being missing for eight days. the victim was rescued by the police on Tuesday (14), after managing to make contact with a sister over the internet on a trip to a store to buy clothes.
The man, who was arrested for keeping the young woman in private prison, won in court the right to answer for the crime in freedom, during the custody hearing. He will have to wear an electronic anklet.