First quarter of 2022 closed with 250% more feminicides in Rondônia

Iury Lima – From Cenarium Magazine

VILHENA (RO) – Murders of women motivated by hate, feminicides grew 250% in the first quarter of 2022 alone, in Rondônia, according to a survey conducted by CENARIUM Magazine, on Tuesday, 26, with data from the State Secretariat for Security, Defense and Citizenship (Sesdec).

There were seven victims in the first three months of the year: two in January, three in February, and two more in March, being the last month, the same period in the year 2021, there were no occurrences of feminicide in any of the 52 municipalities.

The increase is significant, because from January 1st to March 31st last year only two cases were investigated as hate crimes due to gender issues.

During the same period, the increase in the rate of women violently killed, including those cases that were not treated as feminicides, was equally alarming: a 122.22% variation, since there were 20 cases since the first month of this year, against nine occurrences in the first quarter of 2021.

Feminicide crimes had already increased by 150% in the first two months of 2022, according to a previous survey, done at the end of March, by CENARIUM.

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Feminicides per municipality

So far this year, the leadership has been in the capital, with almost 30% of the registers. Ariquemes, Alto Alegre dos Parecis and Pimenta Bueno, Ouro Preto do Oeste and Jaru each had 14.3%.

The ranking of feminicides

When the cut is made according to race, almost half, that is, 42.9% were brown. Black and white women had the same rate: 28.6% each group. The victims were between 16 and 51 years old.

Between January and March of last year, the only two victims were killed at the ages of 42 and 47, in the municipalities of Porto Velho and Ouro Preto do Oeste.

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Murders in general also went up

When the analysis considers all deaths of women, in addition to those cases in which the crimes are investigated or solved as feminicides, January and February closed with seven victims each. Last month there were six. Included in this list are intentional homicides (when there is intent to kill); there were 13. Therefore, Rondônia had 20 women murdered since the beginning of the year:

• Intentional homicides against women: 65%
• Feminicides: 37%.
  

Porto Velho and Ji-Paraná were tied with 25% of these occurrences.

In addition, women represented 11.2% of the murders which occurred in the first quarter in the state: a total of 116 cases. The majority, 39%, were in Porto Velho. Last year there were 83 murders, of which seven women (8.4%) were victims. In other words, more women were killed in the first quarter of 2022 than a year ago. At that time, feminicides were 22% of the homicides, while this year, they were 37% of those crimes.

Ji-Paraná was the municipality that killed the most women, comparing the two periods: 100% more than in 2022; Porto Velho was in second place with an increase of 33%.

Barbaric example

The most recent tragic outcome that occurred in Rondônia was a classic example of feminicide: the man who does not accept the end of a relationship and would rather see his ex-mate dead than happy with someone else.

Rayane Ferreira Nascimento, 30, was murdered with three shots by her ex-partner, José Paula Goveia, because she refused to dance with him at a party. The crime happened in the early hours of last Sunday, 24th, in the rural area of Alta Floresta D’Oeste, almost 530 kilometers from Porto Velho. Rayane died on the spot and three other people were wounded; two with perforations in the leg and arm and another victim with an abdomen injury.

José fled by car, which was identified by the Military Police (PM) Tactical Force. The man was arrested in flagrante after fleeing from the Military Police, in a chase that took place until the urban perimeter of Alta Floresta. The gun used in the crime, of which he presented a Federal Registration Certificate, was seized: a Taurus 9 millimeter. The police also collected 12 intact and five deflated ammunitions.

Rayane and José Paula had been separated for about two months, after a relationship that lasted 12 years. The victim’s mother revealed WhatsApp conversations in which Rayane revealed that she was threatened by Jose for at least two years and that he said he would not accept the possibility of seeing her with another.

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