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Mother who brutally stabbed her son to death for being gay gets 25 years in prison
A mother who was convicted of killing her son because he’s gay has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The December 2016 death of 17-year-old Itaberli Lozano at the hands of his mother shocked the world. Investigators accused the mother, Tatiana Lozano Pereira, 35, of stabbing her son, burning his body, and burying him in a cane field near Sao Paolo, Brazil.
This past Wednesday, a jury sentenced Lozano Pereira to 25 years and eight months in prison after finding her guilty of homicide and corpse concealment.
Two accomplices, Victor Roberto da Silva and Miller da Silva Barissa, who were both teenagers at the time, have been sentenced to 21 years and eight months in prison for homicide, Veja reports.
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