- Marcos Paulino turned himself in to police in Caconde, Brazil, on Monday and confessed to killing his wife, Tatiele de Cássia.
- Paulino told investigators he was angry with De Cássia after she bit a finger in his left hand while they were having sex and stabbed her while she slept.
- According to the Brazilian Forum for Public Security, a total of 1,463 women were victims of femicide in Brazil in 2023.
A Brazilian man has turned himself in to police after saying he killed his wife because she bit his finger during sex.
Marcos Paulino confessed to São Paulo civil police that he stabbed his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, while she slept in their home in the municipality of Caconde.
Paulino said he was upset after his 38-year-old wife bit one of his fingers on his left hand.
He waited until she fell asleep and attacked her with a kitchen knife.
Marcos Paulino (right) turned himself in to police in Brazil’s southeastern city of Caconde on Monday and confessed to killing his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia (left), because she bit his finger while they were having sex
São Paulo’s Secretariat of Public Security said in a statement that Tatiéle de Cássia (pictured) had “holes in the chest and neck” as a result of the stabbing by her husband Marcos Paulino.
The knife that Marcos Paulino used to kill his wife, Tatiéle de Cássia, was recovered from their home in Caconde, a city in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo.
“After she changed clothes, went back to bed and slept, he stabbed her in the neck and chest, killing her,” Civil Police Chief João Delfino told Brazilian news channel G1.
Paulino fled the house and went into hiding in the countryside near Caconde before returning on Monday and turning himself in at a local military police station.
Authorities went to the couple’s home and found De Cássia’s body “with holes in the chest and neck caused by a knife,” São Paulo’s Secretariat of Public Security said in a statement.
The Paulino killer told investigators that he had “used cocaine” before killing the Cássia, Delfino said in an interview with EPTV.
Marcos Paulino fled the house after killing his wife on Sunday evening and turned himself in to São Paulo military police
Marcos Paulino (right) faces 12 to 30 years in prison if convicted of the murder of his wife, Tatiele de Cássia
The couple started dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January
The couple started dating in October 2023 and moved in together in January.
Paulino is charged with femicide and faces a prison sentence of 12 to 30 years if convicted.
According to figures released in March by the Brazilian Forum for Public Security, a total of 1,463 women were victims of femicide in 2023, an estimate of 1.4 deaths for every 100,000 women.
Brazil has recorded 10,655 femicides since 2015, when the government passed a law defining murder as “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 the Brazilian Forum for Public Security, said in a statement.
“This issue has been the subject of countless debates in civil society, but this is not enough to reduce the number of these crimes committed every day in Brazil.”