Brazilian man rapes girl, rips her heart out; cops suspect black magic

Minais Gerais: In a horrifying incident, a man has been arrested on the charges of brutally raping a 10-year-old girl and ripping her heart out. The incident took place as the girl walked to school in the Brazilian state of Minais Gerais.

The accused, identified as 42-year-old Jairo Lopes, targeted Raiana Aparecida Candida, the victim, on June 1 and raped her before ripping her heart out.

Lopez was arrested days after Raiana's body was found at a country farm in Buenopolis. Her heart was allegedly torn out when she was found.

He was taken into custody after being found hiding in a farm. Investigators said that Lopez had to be airlifted from the hiding place as about 500 people had gathered near the spot to lynch him.

“We had to move him out quickly from the hiding place he was found in because locals wanted to kill him,” police chief Giovanni Idalmo de Faria was quoted as saying by the Mirror.

He pleaded guilty to raping and murdering Raiana. Earlier, investigators investigated this as an extortion case, but later they suspected black magic angle. Police believed it could be the result of black magic as Lopez had a tattoo on his stomach that referred to a particular sect.

The minor victim had recently lost her mother to a disease and was being raised by her father and maternal grandmother.

In the most recent case of sexual assault against minor girls in Brazil, police had registered a case against 30 men suspected of gangraping a 16-year-old in Rio de Janeiro. The attackers posted pictures and videos of the assault on the unconscious teenager on Twitter.

In her statement to the police, the victim said that the moment she woke up, she saw nearly 30 men surrounding her with weapons in their hand. Before she could think of anything, they attacker her and brutally raped her till she passed out.