Family disputes father's claim of finding messages; says girl had no phone

In the city of Várzea Grande, a twelve-year-old girl named Olga Beatriz Santos da Silva was beaten to death by her own father on the evening of June 7th — a violence made more troubling by the fact that the explanation offered for it may itself be a fabrication. Claudinei da Silva claimed he was provoked by messages he found on his daughter's phone, yet those who knew the family say he could not read and the girl had no phone to find. When the stated reason for an act of destruction cannot withstand scrutiny, the search for truth becomes not only a legal obligation but a moral one — for the ch