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Adultery judge awaits case review 'with serenity'

upsetwomanNeto de Moura, the judge from the Oporto Court of Appeal who has been severely criticised for playing down a violent assault with a weapon on a woman who had an affair, is said by his lawyer, to be “serene awaiting the outcome.”

Ricardo Serrano Vieira, a lawyer for the judge who will be heard on Friday at the Supreme Court of Justice, said that "the judgment in question is irreproachable from a legal point of view."

The hastily arranged hearing comes after the Superior Council of Magistrates opened an investigation to review the judge’s evaluation of the case in which Neto invoked the Bible, the Penal Code of 1886 and civilizations that punish adultery with the death penalty, to play down the violence and injury inflicted on the victim by her husband and her former lover.

The president of the Supreme Court of Justice has already reacted to the controversy. António Henriques Gaspar said that "personal beliefs and states of the soul are not helpful as arguments."

Gaspar’s endorsement of Neto’s ruling, in which the sentences handed to the men were suspended, despite their having attacked the woman with a nail-studded club, have caused national and international outrage and demonstrations.

A petition on the internet has been signed by nearly 19,000 people calling for the Ombudsman to act.

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-1 #4 Malcolm.H 2017-11-04 08:32
Damien's comment brings into sharp focus that, in so many ways, citizens from the more developed EU lose basic rights when living and attempting to establish businesses in the less developed EU. What happened with this poor Portuguese woman is acceptable in Portugal but an imprisonable crime in more advanced ones !
+1 #3 Dierdre 2017-11-03 15:48
This tragic event is only still in the Portuguese news because the developed world looks on yet again in horror. Which makes Portugal look yet again - silly.
Portugal doing so often what is exactly the opposite of the English speaking world - wherein it is far more likely that the husband would have beaten up his wife's ex-lover. No use whatsoever of 'gay boy spiked clubs'.
Does this give us the reason the Portuguese Judicial Iman's are so keen to defend the premeditated assault with an offensive weapon, being that the two men are gay? Like so many religious judges. The woman now in the way and, this being Portugal, accusing her of adultery being a 'walk in the park' solution.
+1 #2 Damien 2017-11-03 15:26
Do more people begin to grasp just how backward Portugal is? In essence, as a comment on the value of women's equality, although the Portuguese case is far more serious as it reflects on the development of the European Union - how does this decision differ in its thinking from the Egyptian lawyer in the news currently for saying 'Women in torn jeans should be raped'??
+3 #1 Cicero 2017-11-03 14:16
It may have lost something in translation but I was told that the lawyer actually said that the judge, Neto de Moura was, "awaiting the outcome with serene senility". ;-)

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