A New Zealand man on Monday criticized Brazilian police, who he said delayed for weeks the arrest of a suspect in his toddler daughter’s rape and murder during a beach vacation.
“No one should have to go through what we went through,” Karl Paroli said.
Paroli, who recently moved to Brazil with his Brazilian partner, recounted how his daughter, Cloe, was killed on Dec. 4 last year — but it took police until last week to catch the suspected murderer, a laborer on the gated vacation property they were renting.
He singled out the head of the local military police near the Trancoso coastal resort town in eastern Brazil where they had been staying for allegedly blocking attempts to have the crime investigated.
According to reports, a 24-year-old worker at the Trancoso villa the couple had rented was arrested last week and confessed to raping and drowning Cloe.
Paroli said he had been pressured to keep quiet about the rape and murder, but the case made headlines in Brazil this week after the couple came forward.
One TV program screened on Sunday used a hidden camera to record the head of the local military police blaming Cloe’s parents for what happened to her, saying the three-year-old had been left alone to play in the garden while Paroli slept in the villa.
The officer said he did not have the resources to investigate all the murders in his district and that the case had received undue attention because Paroli was a foreigner.
Paroli said he and his partner had to push every step of the way to get the case investigated.
Doctors refused to conduct an autopsy without police permission — something that took weeks of uphill struggle to receive, he said.
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