Leonor Cipriano’s son Carries a Gun

by Ana Palma

“Terrible, uncontrollable, with episodes of physical and verbal violence”. This is how A., aged ten, son of Leonor Cipriano – who was condemned in 2005 to 16 years in prison over the murder of her daughter Joana -, is described in the neighbourhood where he resides in Porches, and where last week he took a lead gun to school, which was apprehended by the GNR.

Neighbours told CM that it is frequent for them to be insulted by the child “who respects nobody, not even his father or his stepmother”. The situation was the last drop in a process that has been dragging on for years, when the child first went to school.

Yesterday afternoon, the school’s parents association took the case to the Public Ministry of Portimão. “This was an SOS, a call for help. A. has been signalled by the Child Protection Commission and his situation has also been followed by the school, the town hall and the Regional Education Directory. He was the target of a specific educational project, with no results”, the vice president of the parents’ association, Maria do Carmo, clarified. The latter defends the need for A. to be institutionalised, a measure that is apparently supported by the child’s father himself. “Someone has to help A. to avoid him being a criminal, which he is already”, Maria do Carmo laments.

Details

Home alone – When ‘CM’ yesterday knocked on the door of the house where A. resides, it found the child home alone.

Parents’ meeting – A.’s case was discussed at the school, during a meeting with parents, as well as that of a nine year old boy from third grade who allegedly forced another one, aged four, to perform oral sex.

‘Provocations’ – Neighbours say that it is frequent for other children to speak out ‘provocations’ to A. over his mother.


source: Correio da Manhã, 29.05.2009



By Astro

Joana’s mother requests condemnation and effective prison sentence for the four PJ inspectors that were acquitted of the crime of torture in May

Leonor Cipriano, the mother of Joana, the little girl that disappeared from Figueira in 2004, has appealed the sentence of Gonçalo Amaral and three other former PJ inspectors, in the case of aggressions that she allegedly suffered during questioning in Faro.

The appeal, which was filed this Thursday at the Appeals Court of Évora, requests the condemnation and effective prison sentence for the arguidos that were acquitted by the Court of Faro, tvi24.pt was told by Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia.

According to the document that was given to tvi24.pt by Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano files an appeal because she disagrees with the sentence that was given on the 22nd of May by the Court of Faro, where inspectors Leonel Marques, Paulo Cristóvão and Paulo Marques Bom were acquitted over the crime of torture.

Joana’s mother also disagrees the acquittal of Gonçalo Amaral over the crime of omission of denunciation, as well as the application of only 1 year and 6 months in prison with a suspended sentence over the crime of false deposition.

Justifying these discrepancies, Leonor Cipriano’s defence mentions that the ruling of Mat 22 “suffers from contradictions”, by acquitting the arguidos. This because “the ruling itself considered proved that a fall from the stairs didn’t exist [as the defence alleged] and that the arguido Gonçalo de Sousa Amaral knew that truth perfectly well”.

Alleged complaint from Gonçalo Amaral’s wife

Leonor Cipriano’s defence further mentions that one of the “extremely important pieces of evidence” against Gonçalo Amaral was refused by the judge three months after the first request. That evidence concerns a complaint that was presented by the wife of arguido Gonçalo Amaral against her own husband.

In the complaint, which was presented on the 23rd of December 2007 in the shape of a letter that was directed at Guilhermino da Encarnação, the PJ’s Joint National Director in Faro, Gonçalo Amaral’s wife asks for help to trace her underage daughter that was living with her father.

In the letter, which Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer sent to tvi24.pt, Alexandra Leal mentions that she found her husband, Gonçalo Amaral, “consuming alcoholic drinks, together with other colleagues”. In another excerpt, the wife of the former coordinator of the PJ’s Criminal Investigation Department of Portimão mentions that Gonçalo Amaral “ordered me to enter the house, where he insulted me and threatened me with death”.

Contacted by tvi24.pt and questioned about whether or not he received said complaint at the time, Guilhermino Encarnação declined to comment.

To tvi24.pt, Aragão Correia, Leonor Cipriano’s lawyer, mentions that the letter, to which he had access through a source at the PJ’s Faro Directory, was only “mentioned for the first time five months ago”. At that time, according to Aragão Correia, both Gonçalo Amaral and his wife, Alexandra Leal, “denied that any complaint had been presented” and “stated that the letter was not authentic”.

Joana’s mother’s lawyer stresses that the letter from Gonçalo Amaral’s wife, and another document from the PJ’s picket that proves that the complaint entered the police, is of “extreme importance”. This because it “proves the violent, criminal and inhuman personality of arguido Gonçalo Amaral”, the lawyer states.

Leonor Cipriano’s defence disagrees that those two documents were “completely ignored” by the Court and now requests for them to be known by the Appeals Court in Évora.

Leonor Cipriano and her brother, João Cipriano, were condemned by the Supreme Court of Justice to 16 years in prison over the crimes of homicide and concealment of a cadaver.


source: IOL Diário, 29.05.2009



By Astro

Isnt Amarals wife called Sophia?

This kid dont stand a chance with a mum like that. Its in the genes

Standing Tall wrote:This kid dont stand a chance with a mum like that. Its in the genes

it is not only the mum

all family are dysfunctional

they don´t have anyone that could guide

Standing Tall wrote:Isnt Amarals wife called Sophia?

yes - Sofia

On May 29, Anonymous said...
Well... half of our personality is genetic and half environmment... The boy cannot get ride of his genetical prints. He cannot go against nature, but Mr. marinho Pinto, since he is the defendant of all with bad nature, he have here a good oportunnity to finally do something useful for the society. BRING THAT BOY TO YOUR HOME.... PAY HIM A GOOD EDUCATION and start clean-up the streets from all that unlucky birth childs. INSTEAD OF PUBLISHING AND PUBLICISED THE INTERNATIONAL AMNISTY REPPORT STATING THAT THERE IS TORTURE INSIDE PJ, LOOK TO ALL THE CHILDS ABANDONNED BY PARENTS which dont want or dont know how to carrie on a good education. TO MUCH WORK...YAH MR. MARINHO PINTO? MUCH MORE WORK THEN JUST STATE A REPPORT... against PJ. NO monney and no popularity to use in TVs...

pm wrote:On May 29, Anonymous said...
Well... half of our personality is genetic and half environmment... The boy cannot get ride of his genetical prints. He cannot go against nature, but Mr. marinho Pinto, since he is the defendant of all with bad nature, he have here a good oportunnity to finally do something useful for the society. BRING THAT BOY TO YOUR HOME.... PAY HIM A GOOD EDUCATION and start clean-up the streets from all that unlucky birth childs. INSTEAD OF PUBLISHING AND PUBLICISED THE INTERNATIONAL AMNISTY REPPORT STATING THAT THERE IS TORTURE INSIDE PJ, LOOK TO ALL THE CHILDS ABANDONNED BY PARENTS which dont want or dont know how to carrie on a good education. TO MUCH WORK...YAH MR. MARINHO PINTO? MUCH MORE WORK THEN JUST STATE A REPPORT... against PJ. NO monney and no popularity to use in TVs...

Standing Tall wrote:Isnt Amarals wife called Sophia?

I was just wondering about that. So who is Alexandra Leal?