Church Ministry Verbo Vivo, in São Joaquim de Bicas, 46 km from the mining capital Belo Horizonte (Brazil) is investigated by the Public Prosecutor. The "faithful" would be sending young people to North Carolina to work on a regime analogous to slavery. We talked to a deputy who was accompanying the case.
Who travels the 45 minutes that separate the capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, towards São Joaquim de Bicas (Brazil) hopes to find the tranquility typical of a small country town. But behind the alleged lull, is the Church Ministry Verb Vivo that is now being investigated by the state prosecutor.
The reason is shocking: the evangelicals maintainers of the institution are accused of mistreatment and send young people who studied at a church school to work in a regime similar to slavery in North Carolina in the United States. The denunciations date back to 2009, but have returned to the center of the controversy with a report from the Associated Press news agency.
Verbo Vivo has been in the city since 2005. It provides educational service to about 15 young people at a cost of R $ 700 reais per month. The first complaint, eight years ago, came from a father who allegedly told police that the church was trying to "remove his daughter." Three years later, in 2012, she would have been reported to the Guardianship Council for allegedly beating students to "remove the demon from their bodies."
We talked exclusively with the Government leader and member of the Commission on Human Rights in the Legislative Assembly of Minas Gerais, State Representative Durval Ângelo. According to the Parliament, parents of children and adolescents who studied at school had already contacted the Commission to denounce parental alienation, that is, the church forbade contact with the children. In some reports they described young people sent to the United States as afraid of contacting relatives and suffering reprisals.
"There are real reports of horror, students describing physical punishments using sticks and pennants, and prohibitions of the most absurd from a didactic point of view," says Durval. "A student heard by the Public Ministry and the Civil Police reported physical and psychological torture. Children of 9 or 10 were forced to tell their libidinous dreams and beaten to cast out demons."
Durval says he was impressed by how "the name of God was used for so many outrages". The case at the time was referred to the State Prosecutor's Office and the MP, who, according to the deputy, "totally omitted" to forward the complaint. The issue was also sent to Itamaraty and the Federal Police, which have not yet pronounced themselves.
Still according to the deputy, there are parents who have been without contact with their children for 8 years. Others even know if the children are alive. The Commission will continue to follow the matter.
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