Erika Hilton: This is something that frightens, shocks, and calls us to responsibility.
Erika Hilton: 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.
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!
Erika Hilton: And it is important to remember that this is not the first decision that the Court of Justice of Minas Gerais has made.