Battered Spouse Syndrome
A court in Brazil has convicted a 52-year old woman in Brazil's most notorious "battered spouse" case ever. Rosanita Nery dos Santos tried very hard to convince the court that the murder of her husband was justified by years of humiliation at the husband's hands. So where's the "battered" part, you ask? Oh, that's easy.
She battered - and fried - her husband's dismembered body.
SAO PAULO, Brazil - A Brazilian housewife was convicted and sentenced to 19 years in prison Friday for killing her husband, chopping his body into small pieces and frying it. Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 52, drugged her husband in his sleep, then stabbed him to death two years ago in Salvador, about 900 miles northeast of Sao Paulo, said police spokesman Idmar Bonfim.
She then hacked Jose Raimundo Soares dos Santos' body into more than 100 pieces, which she boiled and fried before hiding in plastic bags beneath a staircase in her house, Bonfim said. He said police discovered the body parts after receiving an anonymous phone call.
The court was convinced it was either a black magic ritual of some sort or possibly a scheme to collect the life insurance the husband had. But dos Santos said armed intruders killed her husband then forced her to dismember and fry the remains. If she had a real smart lawyer, she might have been able to convince the court that it was a gang of armed chickens avenging years of abuse by Colonel Sanders. Which leads to one obvious and unanswered question about all of this:
What kind of side dish do you order with the battered spouse?
World news | Gaius Saturday, 24 March , 2007
By BlogDog, Saturday, 24 March , 2007 @ 8:43 am
A tempura restraining order?
By Bleepless, Saturday, 24 March , 2007 @ 12:28 pm
He just went for a wok.
By wheels, Monday, 26 March , 2007 @ 1:02 pm
If she does it again, would we refer to her former husbands as battered spice?