Mother-in-Law Is Fair Game to Brazil Judge
A man who kicked and punched his mother-in-law acted to fulfill his conjugal duty, a Brazilian court ruled.
Arlindo Barbosa da Silva, a car mechanic, came home drunk one day in September and began arguing with his wife. When his mother-in-law, Jacira Rosa Alexandre, tried to intervene, Silva dealt her “a nice thrashing,” a Sao Paulo newspaper reported.
Accused of assault, Silva was found not guilty by Judge Antonio Carlos Goncalves, who concluded: “The accused acted in the strict fulfillment of his duty, which is to keep outsiders from perturbing conjugal harmony.”
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