Man who stabbed his 5 and 6 year old daughters to death in Taquarituba is sentenced to 60 years in prison

Natanael de Lima was sentenced to 60 years in prison, this Thursday (8), for stabbing his two daughters to death, aged 5 and 6, in Taquarituba (SP).

The conviction occurred for 2 qualified homicides for gross, cruel reasons and asphyxiation. There was an aggravation due to an appeal that made the defense difficult and due to domestic violence.

According to the prosecution, the crime was motivated by jealousy after the end of the relationship with the girls' mother. One daughter died from hemorrhage and the other from asphyxiation.

The victims were found dead 6 hours after the father announced the false imprisonment. The police were called by neighbors due to a gas leak in the area.

The court sentenced the man accused of stabbing his two daughters, aged 5 and 6, to 60 years in prison, in a closed regime, inside the house where they lived, in Jardim Santa Rita, in Taquarituba (SP). The crime occurred in May 2022.

The sentence was confirmed to g1 by the São Paulo Public Ministry (MPSP) this Friday (9). According to the decision, Natanael de Lima was convicted of two homicides for gross and cruel reasons and asphyxiation.

The sentence was also aggravated by the use of resources that made it difficult to defend victims and by feminicide, characterized by the context of domestic and family violence. Furthermore, in each of the crimes, the penalty was increased because the victims were under 14 years of age.

According to the prosecution, the crime was motivated by Nathanael's jealousy of the girls' mother, who had ended her relationship with him.

The man stabbed his two daughters in different parts of the body. One of the children died as a result of hemorrhage, while the other died of asphyxiation with her own blood.

Remember the case

Nátali, aged 5, and Natanaeli, aged 6, were found dead and with injuries inside the house where they lived, on May 24, 2022, six hours after their father warned that he was keeping the girls hostage.

The children's mother was not in the house at the time of the crime. Nathanael had slept in the house the day before and, while she was away, he dismissed the girls' caregiver and kept them in private prison.

At the time, the Military Police reported that they were called late in the morning by neighbors who noticed a gas leak. When the police arrived at the scene, the man who was in the house refused to open the residence.

For hours, the suspect said that his daughters were tied up inside the house, but did not show them to the police. A police scanner was used to detect that the children were not moving.