Some time later, there was a twist in the story when the accused claimed they had been tortured by the police to confess to the ritual against the boy. Beatriz and Celina recounted that they were taken, hooded, by car to a house.
Celina said she knew the area and, even with a cloth over her head, she noticed that they first traveled on asphalt and then on a dirt road. When the car stopped, she could briefly see that the destination was a wooden house located on a farm.
“From there, it’s difficult. It’s the worst part. (…) We left the courthouse before 9 a.m., and we returned to the courthouse after 4 p.m. I only know because I heard the police officer commenting ‘oh, step on it because it’s already four o’clock.’ It was the worst moment,” she said.
She recounted that they were forced to say what the police officers told them, otherwise they were threatened, violated, and tortured.
“I even asked the police officers ‘kill me, do whatever you want with me, I’ll say whatever you want, but release my daughter, take my daughter back.’ But there was no deal. So you’re listening to your daughter being tortured and, from the screams and the situation, raped. Nine police officers on top of her. You would say you killed Jesus Christ, you say everything they tell you. We never confessed anything, we repeated what the ‘police officers’ said,” Celina recalled in the interview.
The mayor’s daughter at the time, Beatriz, remembered that at a certain point in the place where she was tortured, the police officers told her to take a bath. In an attempt to prove that she had been there, thinking the case would be investigated, she left a pair of panties in the bathroom.
“I have flashes, I don’t remember my entire torture. I tried at every moment to say that I was not guilty, that I was making it up. I didn’t know where I was going, I didn’t know if they were going to kill us, if we were going back to the courthouse. We were tortured all day, my mother and I. Osvaldo and Davi were tortured for much more than 48 hours because they were arrested earlier. De Paula was arrested with us, so it was also 24 hours,” she recounted.
Osvaldo Marceneiro and Davi dos Santos described being tortured at the summer house of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner. They also said in their statements that a woman accompanied some torture rituals. They pointed out that it was Judge Anésia Edith Kowalski.
Beatriz recounted that if she got the name of the person or the way they wanted her to speak wrong, she would receive electric shocks.