- Marcos Paulino surrendered to police in Caconde, Brazil, on Monday and confessed to murdering his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia.
- Paulino told investigators he was angry with De Cássia after she bit a finger on his left hand while they had sex and stabbed her while she slept.
- A total of 1,463 women were victims of feminicide in Brazil in 2023, according to the Brazilian Public Security Forum
A Brazilian man turned himself in to police after saying he murdered his wife because she bit his finger during sex.
Marcos Paulino confessed to the São Paulo Civil Police that he stabbed his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, while she was sleeping at their home in the municipality of Caconde.
Paulino said he was upset after his wife, 38, bit the finger on his left hand.
He waited until she fell asleep and attacked her with a kitchen knife.
Marcos Paulino (right) surrendered to police in the southeastern Brazilian city of Caconde on Monday and confessed to having murdered his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia (left), because she had bitten his finger while they were having sex. .
The São Paulo Public Security Secretariat reported in a statement that Tatiéle de Cássia (pictured) had “holes in her chest and neck” after being stabbed by her husband, Marcos Paulino.
The knife with which Marcos Paulino allegedly murdered his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, was recovered in his home in Caconde, a city in the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil
“After she changed (her clothes) and went back to bed and slept, he stabbed her in the neck and chest, killing her,” Civil Police Chief João Delfino told Brazilian media outlet G1.
Paulino fled the house and was hiding in the rural region near Caconde before returning on Monday and turning himself in at a local Military Police station.
The authorities went to the couple’s house and found De Cássia’s body “with holes in the chest and neck, caused by a knife,” the São Paulo Public Security Secretariat reported in a statement.
Paulino’s killer told investigators that he had “consumed cocaine” before killing De Cássia, Delfino said in an interview with EPTV.
Marcos Paulino fled the house after killing his wife on Sunday night and turned himself in to the São Paulo Military Police.
Marcos Paulino (right) faces between 12 and 30 years in prison if convicted of the murder of his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia
The couple began dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January.
The couple began dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January.
Paulino faces a charge of femicide and faces between 12 and 30 years in prison if convicted.
According to figures published in March by the Brazilian Public Security Forum, a total of 1,463 women were victims of feminicide in 2023, an estimate of 1.4 deaths per 100,000 women.
Brazil has recorded 10,655 femicides since 2015, when the government approved a law that qualified it as murder ’caused by domestic or family violence due to the condition of the female sex.’
“We cannot normalize the deaths of more than 10,000 women murdered in less than a decade just because they are women,” Samira Bueno, director of Brazil’s Public Security Forum, said in a statement.
“This issue has been the subject of numerous debates by civil society, but this is not enough to reduce the number of these crimes committed every day in Brazil.”