Brazil Gang Rape Of US Student: Trio Jailed

Three men have been jailed for almost 120 years for brutally raping an American student on a bus in Rio.

The six-hour ordeal began after midnight on March 30 when the victim and her French boyfriend caught a public minibus in the Copacabana beach area.

They were on their way to the popular nightlife district of Lapa.

Two men who boarded the bus at the same time robbed the rest of the passengers and ordered them to get off.

They then handcuffed the couple, beating the Frenchman with a metal bar and raping the 21-year-old American as they drove around the city, according to police.

The driver of the vehicle, 20-year-old Jonathan de Souza, and Walace de Souza Silva, 21, were each jailed for 49 years and three months for robbery, rape, extortion and corruption of minors.

The victims boarded the minibus at the famous Copacabana beach

Under Brazilian law, they will serve a maximum of 30 years.

Another defendant, 21-year-old Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos, who was not present at the start of the assault, was sentenced to 21 years for rape and extortion.

A minor detained in connection with the rape has yet to be tried.

The attackers also went on a shopping spree with the couple's credit cards, forcing the woman to return to the apartment where she was staying to fetch another card, the police officer overseeing the investigation has said.

They were arrested a few days later.

In his ruling in Rio, judge Guilherme Schilling Pollo said the young American woman "had been humiliated in a cowardly manner and the brutal act of her assailants had caused disgust and indignation".

Rio's Tourist Police Station chief Alexandre Braga

A court statement said the attacks "in many instances were laced with sadism and complete disdain for the victim".

After the ordeal, the pair was dumped in a "favela" slum in the poor Rio suburb of Sao Goncalo.

Brazilian news reports have said the couple was in the country to study Portuguese.

News of the case sparked widespread outrage, particularly after it emerged that the gang was suspected of previous attacks on Brazilian women that were largely ignored by authorities.

The case led to a ban on public minibuses from Rio's upscale South Zone.

But the minibuses, seen as a faster alternative to the buses used as Rio's primary form of public transport, still operate in impoverished suburbs ringing the city of 6 million.

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