A lady from Rio de Janeiro went viral final month when a video of her bringing her deceased uncle to a financial institution to have him signal mortgage paperwork surfaced on-line. Following the incident, Erika de Souza was arrested by the Brazilian police on prices of disrespecting a corpse and making an attempt to commit fraud. After spending 16 days on remand in jail, she just lately spoke out for the primary time concerning the accusations.
“The days away from my family have been horrible, very difficult. I didn’t realise my uncle was dead. It’s absurd what people are saying. I’m not that person people are talking about; I’m not that monster,” Metro quoted De Souza, citing a Brazilian TV programme known as Fantastico.
As per the report, she confessed that she solely realised that her uncle Paulo Braga had handed away when an ambulance employee confirmed his demise. De Souza claims that her reminiscence of the afternoon on April 16 when she took Braga to log out on the £2,650 mortgage may be very blurry as she was on a tablet.
De Souza was taking a sleeping tablet known as Zolpidem as she was present process medical therapy. She advised Metro, “I don’t know if it was the impact of the capsules I had taken that day and I took every now and then.”
She acknowledged that her uncle had advised her that he would really feel higher if she held his head up earlier than they entered the financial institution collectively, and that despite the fact that he had just lately been discharged from the hospital after contracting pneumonia, it was his thought to go to the financial institution.
De Souza mentioned, “He was independent; he walked; he did what he wanted; and he had a good mind,” reported Metro. She added that Braga was not a every day wheelchair consumer, and she or he was by no means her carer.
A choose granted Erika bail, stating that her launch would not endanger public order. They additionally mentioned that De Souza has a ‘weakened’ state of psychological well being and the duty of caring for her daughter with particular wants.
