Mum tears off her 9-year-old son’s penis and beheads him with the help of her lesbian lover because ‘he reminded her of her dad’

The women are accused of tearing off Cândido’s son Rhuan’s penis a year ago during a surgery done at home with “rudimentary tools”. The two women are said to have told investigators they did it because Rhuan “wanted to become a girl.”

According to local reports, “After removing his penis, the women said they sewed an improvised version of the female organ onto the mutilated area.”

The lovers are said to have confessed everything to cops in Samambaia, about 20 miles from capital Brasilia. They face homicide, torture and concealing a corpse charges.

Cândido reportedly claimed her son was a “burden” and a hindrance to her relationship with Pessoa. She also “felt hatred and no love” for him because he reminded her of father, who allegedly abused her.

Cândido

Rhuan’s dad, who lives in Acre, is said to have told officers that Cândido ran away with the boy five years ago when he lost custody. She then went to live with Pessoa and her daughter, now aged nine.

Pessoa’s daughter has been put into care.

Pessoa

Police chief Guilherme Melo told O Tempo: “She killed her son, quartered, decapitated, plucked the skin and tried to get rid of the body. It was a very terrible case.”