Erika Hilton: We who are constantly fighting to defend children and our adolescent girls against femicide, in the struggle to value the lives of women, against a misogynistic State, have witnessed, in a horrifying manner, the legalization of pedophilia in Brazil.
Erika Hilton: This is something that frightens, shocks, and calls us to responsibility.
Even more shocking is to imagine that the punishment that can be applied to this appellate judge because of his decision is that he receives a lifelong retirement; that there is no mechanism to review a criminal decision.
Erika Hilton: The Brazilian State has already neglected and abandoned this child — because 12 years old is a child, Deputies, a child who should not have been with a man found rolling a marijuana joint and drinking in an environment where she was having sexual relations with him, a child who said: "He was the best of my boyfriends."
Erika Hilton: Just imagine what this child has already been through at the hands of other men!