The Cascais court sentenced Daniel Souza, Luciana Abreu’s ex-husband, to two years and four months in prison for domestic violence against the actress, but stopped the sentence because it believed the threat of arrest was enough to punish the accused and prevent further crimes. . Daniel Souza will have to comply with a specific domestic violence prevention program by the prison services and be banned from contact with the victim for two years.
Luciana Abreu will also receive three thousand euros in compensation for moral damages. At the end of the hearing, Luciana Abreu cried in the courtroom. The defendant watched by videoconference.
The then-couple’s aggression began in March 2018, months after they started living together. Discussions, verbal at first, had their origins in economic and patriarchal responsibilities, but later became physical. The defendant forced the victim to have sex with the victim when she didn’t want it and when the couple’s two daughters were born, the crimes got worse.
Judge Ruy Pedro Luis found that while Luciana criticized him for surfing when she was home alone with her daughters, the couple argued and the defendant pushed the victim on the kitchen door, bruising her.
The court justified the conviction on the basis of common rules of experience and also established other cases of aggression and coercion until the couple divorced in 2019. The defendant even had sex with the victim unconscious.
Antonio Letao, Luciana Abreu’s lawyer, was convinced of the ruling and had no intention of appealing.
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