He added that the crime of torture carries a prison sentence of up to eight years. “They tied him up and whipped him until he promised to not do it again,” de Souza told The Guardian. The boy told de Souza the guards stopped him as he was leaving the supermarket. He started looking into the incident, interviewed the victim and identified the two security guards, he told the British newspaper.

He described the victim as “a defenseless, homeless black man … A victim of society, I would say.”ĭe Souza told The Guardian he was “extremely shocked” when a journalist sent him the video on Monday regarding the alleged theft at a Ricoy supermarket. “It is like a scene from centuries ago,” detective Pedro Luis de Souza told The Guardian.

He shook his head, unable to speak because he was gagged. Two security guards who were contracted by a Ricoy supermarket in Brazil are accused of whipping a teen while naked for allegedly stealing chocolate. “Are you going to come back?” someone can be heard asking the child in the 40-second video. The unidentified 17-year-old boy’s trousers were around his ankles when the footage showed him being beaten with an electric cable inside a private jail in São Paulo, according to the Brazilian daily newspaper Folha de S.Paulo. Cellphone video of a Black boy naked and whimpering while being whipped in Brazil allegedly for stealing four chocolate bars is dredging up a painful history in the country for Black Brazilians.