Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito


Francisco das Chagas Rodrigues de Brito is a Brazilian serial killer and former mechanic, responsible for the deaths of at least 30 children in Maranhão and Pará, notably emasculating his victims—his case garnered international repercussions as "a case of emasculated children of Maranhão."

Murders

The case of poor children being killed in the capital city of São Luís was elucidated in 2004 with the murder of minor Jonahtan dos Santos, who, before disappearing, had said that he would meet with the mechanic.
The suspect was arrested on suspicion of killing Jonahtan and 16 other boys, leading investigators to murders dating back from 1997, also in the municipalities of Paço do Lumiar and São José de Ribamar. Two bones were also found on the grounds of the house in which he lived.
The lack of clarification on these homicides, carelessly treated for over the years, led Brazil to be denounced by organizations at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, of the OAS.
De Brito's crimes also extended to the state of Pará, with a suspected total of 42 children being killed and emasculated.
In his crimes, the murderer, who exhibited psychopathic characteristics, sexually abused his victims and, after killing them, mutilated them by cutting off their ears, fingers and then emasculating them.