Rio council votes on stripping Dr. Jairinho of mandate over child's death

A 4-year-old child, Henry Borel Medeiros, was killed in March 2021 through homicide involving torture and abuse; additional abuse cases against other children of the councilman's ex-partners have been documented.

In Rio de Janeiro, a city council ethics committee prepared to vote on stripping councilman Dr. Jairinho of his mandate following the death of four-year-old Henry Borel Medeiros in March 2021 — a case that laid bare not only the alleged violence of one man, but the fragility of the systems meant to protect the most vulnerable. With Jairinho and his girlfriend already imprisoned since April, and investigators documenting a pattern of abuse extending to other children, the formal vote represented less a moment of uncertainty than a society's belated reckoning with what the evidence had long made

Rio council votes on stripping Dr. Jairinho of mandate over child's death

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