He had been on the run for three yearssince he was sentenced to 17 years and six months in prison for raping and abusing his two daughters. Domingos Pinto, Portuguese and who works as architect in Asturias, He disappeared in Oviedo, his last city in Spain.
sat one of the ten most wanted fugitives by the National Policewho followed his path through Spain, Portugal, France and finally Brazil, where he was arrested and where he is currently in prison awaiting extradition to Spain.
Pinto, now 51, was found guilty continue to be abused for his eldest daughter, since the girl was 13 years old. Also, for continuing to abuse his daughter since then this one was 10 years old. It all started, according to the decision of the Regional Court of Asturias, in August 2010, when the man separated from the girls’ motherwho left them in their family home in Oviedo.
Nine years of attack
In the case against him. His daughters remember the abuse and torture that their father did to them between 2010 and 2019. The eldest said in court that when she tried to resist, her father threatened to tell her. he hurt his little sister. The rape and abuse ended when the girls went to Galicia to live with their mothers.
Prior to to be tried by the Provincial Court with the approval of the Supreme Court of Justice of Asturias, Pinto disappeared from Oviedo and in Spain. The following from the researchers of the Location Section Runaways of the National Police He placed it in Portugalwhere part of his family lives.
Music in France
There he managed to find that thread placed it in Francewhere his brother had a repair company. Domingos could stay there, hide and work as a builder with his brother. Family members knew Domingos was in trouble and could have offered help. But, again, that lead didn’t go anywhere.
Pintos was never seen and the searchers returned to Portugal. There he found that a person with a name and surname very similar to that of the escaped rapist I flew to Brazil. They thought he might be their target, and that the man had used a method to change the letter of his last name so that he could not be identified on the passenger list.
A picture of the fugitive, when he lived in Oviedo. / EVENTS
During their search through Asturias, the Spanish police discovered that a few months before the Pintos disappeared they were seen with them. Cuban bride. That woman, very young, and she really likes to buy something clothes and underwearhe had also disappeared from Spain. They thought that the two could be together.
Following the girl’s trail, and her love of underwear, the researchers were able to focus their research. Santa Catalina, a province in southern Brazil. Everything showed that the girl passed there. A ticket from another underwear shop to an address Barra Velha, a beautiful coastal town in the north of the state. Spanish police sent information and a possible address to their Brazilian counterparts.
Five Cuban girls
When the Brazilian agents arrived they found out five Cuban girls living in a house. One of them was a girlfriend that Domingos Pinto met in Oviedo and left Spain with. On the next floor There was the fugitive, the rapist of his two daughters. His escape was over. Today he is waiting in a Brazilian prison to be extradited to Spain.
Pinto is the second fugitive on the list of ten most wanted by the Spanish police, which was released last summer, this fall. Before him, Fugitive agents were arrested Jonathan Montoyawho was opposed by a the assassination of Leónidas Vargaswho is said to be a drug dealer when he was admitted to the 12 de Octubre hospital, in Madrid, in January 2009.
