Brazilian police have arrested a U.S. couple at a southern Brazil nudist colony.

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[NakedGary]

:smash: Another strike against legitimate nude recreation, and fuel for the fire set by what will be considered "Ugly Americans" abusing and taking advantage nude recreation, subjects, and youth at a international location nudist resort.


12-13-2007 Well, maybe the above is not true, and its a set-up [Read the latest wire news coverage at the top of this thread. Added by "NakedGary"

[Caipora]

One of the Brazilians arrested is the head of the Brazilian Naturist Federation.

I read this in the morning paper, and it raised all sorts of red flags. For example, the list of evidence: "Police also found laptop computers, photos, DVDs, VHS tapes and a video camera."

Does anyone else reading this have "laptop computers, photos, DVDs, VHS tapes and a video camera"?

The list of victims also raises questions. Normally, it's given as a list of initials: "A.B. age 14, and C.D. age 17, alleged that..." But, there's no list in the articles cited. Nor in the Portuguese-language versions. The local press does cite a 20-year old godson, who says "I've known them for seven years and never seen them put a hand on anyone."

The local press also says the police are examining the computers etc. for evidence.

By Okham's razor, they haven't found evidence, or they would have said so. No children claim to have been molested, or they would have said that, too. All there is, is a policeman making a claim, and he may simply be looking for a shortcut to fame.

The largest paper in that state, Zero Hora, promises for tomorrow, "How the couple accused of pedophilia lived". Translation: there's no evidence to discuss, so let's invade their privacy.

The only comic relief is the claim that police were infiltrated into the nudist community. Perhaps that's not in the English language articles to avoid the difficult choice between describing them as "plain-clothes" or as "undercover".

Looks like pure bunkum.

- Caipora

[Caipora]

There's some more coverage today, two third of a page in the local paper - the major national journal, and not a tabloid - and in Zero Hora. That article is here, though of course in Portuguese:
http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default2.jsp?uf=1&local=1&source=a1706385.xml&template=3898.dwt&edition=8957&section=69

I know neither the club, nor the accused. On reading the articles with care, I think I'd like the accused; I don't think I'd like the members of the club, though.

What it boils down to is a series of quote from people who actually know the couple, children and adults, declaring that they are innocent, and good people. And the police, claiming they have undescribed "evidence", and that the declarations of support are "common and typical" of people who believe in those investigated.

There are, rigorously, no statements by any child, or the parent of any child, of children having been molested.

There is a statement by the couple's lawyer that supposed nude photos of children in sensuous poses were planted by the police. Sensuous poses is subjective, and of course the Brazilian police do plant evidence. As do the American.

There's is the old ploy of having the children "talk to psychologists", but as Brazilian doesn't provide big bucks to psychologists to treat victims, and the children not pliant preschoolers but adolescents, that's not likely to result in a triumph of psychiatric theory over objective reality.

What's the story then? Why the accusations? The facts, as far as can be pieced together from the news article, is that the couple befriended children in an impoverished community near the nudist colony. They organized and paid teachers for English and Portuguese classes - they don't themselves speak Portuguese, and didn't administer the classes. The classes were first held within the nudist community, and later outside it, and all the children always attended clothed.

They also paid things like dental treatment and shoes for some of the poor children, and as the Zero Hora article says, "There were children whose only Christmas presents came from them."

The most likely explanation, I'm afraid, is that the American couple are precisely what they appear to be: a retired couple who moved to a distant land, where a moderate American income permits doing a large amount of good for the less fortunate.

While that speaks well of them, the motives of those quoted in the nudist colony appear less admirable. There is rigid distinction between haves and have-nots in Brazil. While for someone from the U.S. the major distinction of a nudist colony is that you don't have to wear clothes, for a twelve-year-old from the very impoverished community of Morro de Pedra, the attraction of the Colino do Sol nudist colony would be a swimming pool, soccer field, basketball court, and so forth.

One mother is quoted,
"They are very good people. They helped with medicine and food. As entrance was prohibited in Colina do Sol, he [Louderbeck] have me a membership, put it in my name, so I could bring my boys, because the cost is high so that we could enjoy the club. The boys never complained of anything", she said. "It's all a false accusation to get money from the old people. There were often 20 boys sleeping in the loft in their house, with their parents' authorization. Mr. Fritz, for us, is a father."

The articles state that the nudist colony imposed new restrictions to keep children from outside out of the colony, in direct response to Louderbeck. Who, as said, transferred his classes beyond the walls. When the club demanded authorization from parents, why he brought parents' authorizations. There's a snide comments that "Children who are daughters of members or visiting naturists are always around the club. They have the mentality of naturism. It's different from going to Morro da Pedra and bringing children of supposed friends."

The club appears, to my reading, to have acted not from fear of pedophilia, but fear of the poor. The members have made money to allow them to frequent a place that is middle-class, by Brazilian standards. If poor children can enter, where's the distinction they've worked to achieve?

The accusations against the American couple may be merely a means to keep the poor away, when other efforts have failed.

- Caipora

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By TALES AZZONI – 5 hours ago
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — A U.S. couple accused of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in southern Brazil deny the charges and don't understand why police arrested them earlier this week, one of their lawyers said Thursday.
"They are completely innocent," said Marcelo Peruchin, an attorney for Frederick Calvin Louderback, 63, and his girlfriend Barbara Anner, 54, who were detained on Tuesday.
Louderback is suspected of abusing at least 10 boys between the ages of 6 and 14, all from poor neighborhoods near the colony, according to police. Anner is alleged to have lured the boys with promises of gifts, food and trips.
"They were surprised by the police operation targeted at them," Peruchin said in a telephone interview.
Authorities raided the Colonia do Sol nudist colony in the state of Rio Grande do Sul on Tuesday with warrants to arrest the American couple and two Brazilians accused of helping them. The FBI helped Brazilian detectives, who seized laptops, photographs, a camera and DVDs.
The Brazilians — one of whom is Andre Herdy, president of the Brazilian Nudism Federation — also denied the charges through their attorney.
"There's no evidence they did anything, it's an enormous misunderstanding," lawyer Paulo Alves said.
Authorities said the Americans ran a non-governmental organization that gave free English lessons to local children, and also promoted sports activities and donated products to poor families in the region.
The Zero Hora newspaper said Louderback and Anner rarely mingled with other members of the nudist colony, but were admired by residents of a village near the colony.
"Until they prove something, he's very innocent," Marino Jose da Silva, whose two young daughters attended the English classes run by the Americans, told the newspaper. "He always provided education, clothes, notebooks and shoes for the kids."
Another resident, Valdirene Alves da Silva, said the couple took children to doctors and dentists and always gave away presents.

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By TALES AZZONI – 10 hours ago [12-17-2007]
SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) — The U.S. couple accused of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in Brazil are hopeful they will be cleared and released, though Brazilian authorities were awarded more time to investigate them, their lawyer said Monday.
A judge extended the warrants for Frederic Calvin Louderback, 63, of San Diego and Barbara Anner, 72, from Georgia, until Wednesday after police requested more time to compile evidence against the couple.
Louderback is accused of abusing at least 10 boys between the ages of 6 and 14, all from poor neighborhoods near the nudist colony, according to police. Anner is alleged to have lured the boys with promises of gifts, food and trips.
"They remain stunned by the whole situation but are extremely confident that they will be released soon and that everything will be straightened out," said Vitor Peruchin, one of the couple's lawyers.
Louderback and Anner deny all the accusations and said they were set up by wealthy members of the nudist colony who didn't like their work for the poor. The Americans ran an organization that gave free English lessons to children in the region and also promoted sports activities and donated products to poor families.
"We have been talking to residents of the local community and we are gathering more and more evidence showing that they were set up," Peruchin said. "They are very optimistic."
Authorities already have testimony from the minors, "but we are still waiting for the analysis on the items we seized," police inspector Juliano Ferreira said by telephone.
Authorities raided the Colonia do Sol nudist colony in the state of Rio Grande do Sul last Tuesday and also arrested two Brazilians, including Andre Herdy, president of the Brazilian Nudism Federation. They also denied the charges.


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[naturalmanwa]

Is there any recent news on the situation in Brazil?

[NakedGary]

check these links for the latest informantion:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=US+Pair+Face+Sex+Abuse+Charges+in+Brazil&btnG=Search

[Caipora]

Some of the children talked to a psychologist. Article titles said that the exams showed the children were abused. Buried in the articles is that the exams supposedly show that the children suffered abuse in their infancy. As they're now adolescents, and the accused were a continent away during the kids' infancy, this finding has nothing to do with the accusations. Further , the press said she was a specialist in domestic violence; the state medical association's list of specialties list no such specialty for her. Google finds that she wrote a monograph in the area in 2007. Perhaps she's merely a very inexperienced specialist. Would you pick her to treat you if she were an inexperienced surgeon?

According to the playbook, after the accused is exhibited on TV, parents talk to their children, and complaints to the police flood in. There has been a deafening silence.

The U.S. government sent an FBI agent to talk to the jailed couple, asking questions about someone else. The Brazilian police trumpeted, based on this, that the couple was being investigated by the FBI as part of an "international pedophile ring". The person actually sought by the FBI may once have stayed at the couple's house. The press reported this, failing to recall early articles, that saying they ran a one-room bed and breakfast. They deny knowing of the man's record. Brazilian law requires innkeepers to register the names of their guests, but so far as I am aware it does not make them responsible for crimes their guest commit while resident, much less that they may have committed years previously.

The police got the judge to extend the prison of all four for another 81 days. The police, who had been promising to finish the inquiry in the next few days, now say they'll have it done in another ten days.

As I said, there's something very wrong here. When there is actual evidence, the police say so, loudly. If they're waving crud - like a psychologist's report that claims nothing about the accused, or turning an FBI visit to ask questions of a possible witness, into pursuit of those the Brazilians have jailed - it means they have no substance.

In the press reports, nothing at all has been alleged against the Brazilians jailed, one being head of the Brazilian Naturist Federation.

What has happened, as filtered through the news reports, continues to be consistent with four innocent people being arrested on false accusations.

- Caipora

[DoctorSurferDude]

I agree....

This reminds me of the Michael Jackson case....well, the first one. Although I agree there should be a low threshold for suspecting child abuse, I don't agree in the WAY that this is happening. Then again....this is not America. Maybe in Brazil you are considered "guilty till proven innocent".

I know Barb. Both her and Fritz were members of Olive Dell. I can't speak on his behalf cause I don't really know him. But I know her very well and can say that she is a loving and caring person and to accuse her of being a part of a pedophile ring.....that just seems insane to me. What the hell.....I can't even process that. It is like somebody saying "hey...you're mom just got arrested for drug dealing"....huh??

Their godson was a Youth Ambassador this past summer. He is speaking on their behalf. He had nothing but good things to say about the environment they've created in Brazil. He too was one of those kids off the street (brazil has a bunch). They took him in, gave him a place to live, gave him the power to learn and now he is on scholarship at an American University. He, in turn, has been part of their local effort to give hope to the young kids living on the street. They have talked to local dentists and doctors to give these unfortunate homless children good health. The godson made it his project to repair broken bikes and give them to the kids on the streets, so that they could go to school. I mean.....it's stuff that is worthy of Oprah. And....now this??

I'm confused. I don't think there are any GOOD outcomes to this....since the headline is damning enough and the epitath stating "nudists found innocent" will come out after all the attention has moved on. It's a scar on nudism no matter what the outcome.

[naturalmanwa]

This whole mess has a stinky smell to it! The main thing wrong is they are in a foreign country and don't have the same rights as here at home. I hope they have good legal representation, as it looks like they are going to need it.

[Caipora]

The Secretary of Public Security's site has only one article on the arrest, careful not to cite names (though you can pick out "Colina do Sol") but with a picture of the "evidence": http://www.ssp.rs.gov.br/portal/principal.php?action=imp_noticias&cod_noticia=9368#

If you click on the picture, you can examine for yourselves what the police nabbed:
four Lion King postcards, three Hogwarts stickers, two teddy bears ... and a Na tur is im magazine.

They may need more than a good lawyers. Lawyer tend to a a narrow vision that excludes that part of the world outside the courthouse walls. His training is that the police have brought a legal charge which they intend to prove. One of the lawyers is this case has said "it's a misunderstanding."

It's not a misunderstanding. The policeman understood that he wanted to appear in the press, and has now done so. He now understands that he wants to drag his heels until the press forgets the matter - he's already gotten the exposure he he wanted. A lawyer will tend to regard the charges being dropped after a year - during which his clients have lost their health, their reputations, and their savings - as being a "victory". Which, in narrow legal terms, it is.

If the godson can shake off cautious elders and dusty lawyers, and cry to the hills (or less poetically, to the Ouvidor de Justiça e Segurança, Rua Sete de Setembro, 666, second floor, open Monday to Friday, 9 to 5) for justice, he can save them.

- Caipora

[naturalmanwa]

I am not familiar with the legal system in countries outside the US. While I think people who are guilty of this charge need to be punished, the evidence here points the other way and perhaps even to the accused being "framed". Many people in the US think lawyers are a waste of time also, but they are not as well informed as they should be. Most of the general public is not well educated and versed in the law and legal proceedings to act on their own behalf.

[Caipora]

I've found a TV news account of the arrests, from December 14. It is of course in Portuguese. However, it lets people here see the "evidence" and read body language:

http://bandnewstv.com.br/conteudo.asp?ID=59914&CNL=20

The evidence is "safe for work", it's an ordinary nudist photo album with the faces and naughty bits blurred.

Note that while they show Fritz and Barbara, we hear nothing they say. There's just an announcer's voice making accusations.

The policeman - Juliano Brasil Ferreira, age 30, passed the civil service exam in 2004 - talks about the psychiatrist's test results, saying they confirm abuse. I posted earlier on that, that the results are irrelevant - which means, in terms of these accusations, negative. Is he lying, or just misleading?

DoctorSurferDude spoke well of Cristiano. Well, you know those glurgy Reader's Digest stories, about really nice people? They ran one (again, in Portuguese) in January 2007 on Cristiano:

http://www.selecoes.com.br/edicoes_anteriores/2007-01/revista-garoto-taquara.htm

- Caipora

[PeteINA]

... those glurgy Reader's Digest stories, about really nice people? They ran one (again, in Portuguese) in January 2007 on Cristiano:

http://www.selecoes.com.br/edicoes_anteriores/2007-01/revista-garoto-taquara.htm

- Caipora

Drop the URL (copy and paste) above into Babelfish (http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr), set the translation choices from "Portuguese to English" and you can read the story. Though the result is seriously "fractured" English, you can definitely get he gist of the story using this free tool. (You might well have to go first to the referenced link, and then copy the link from the address bar of your browser and paste it into the "Translate a Web Page" dialog on Babelfish.)

Pete

[Caipora]

As it's time for making New Year's resolutions, here's what Reader's Digest has to say about Cristiano. If all of could accomplish by 70 what he did by 17, the world would be a better place.

Reader's Digest neglected to mention he's a naturist, perhaps not wanting to expose their readership to the concept that not only should people not be judged by the clothes they wear, they should also not be judged by what they don't wear.

A Happy New Year to all.

- Caipora

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The good boy of Taquara
by Patrícia Schaffer

The scene is common: dressed in cheap clothes, the woman pleads in a store to take a quart of milk and pay later. The store owner says no. At this moment, a curly-haired eight-year-old boy enters the establishment. On perceiving what is happening, he asks the woman to wait a few minutes. He takes off running through the streets of Taquara, a city of 60,000 inhabitants located 40 miles from Porto Alegre, capital of the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, until he reaches the quarry where his older brother works. There, gasping, he tells the story he has just seen and says that something must be done, because that woman has a family and she can't be left without milk in her house.

He returns to the store with the milk money, which was given to him by his brother's boss. That day, the boy Cristiano Pinheiro Fedrigo reached a conclusion by himself: if each one were to do his part, the world could be better.

Cristiano never had much money at home. His father, Gentil, deceased, had worked in a quarry; his mother, Nedy de Fátima, is a maid. Even without money, Cristiano grew up trying to find creative solutions to help people. At the age of 13, he used his free time to fix bicycles. He did not want any child in Morro da Pedra, where he lived, missing classes from lack of a means of transportation. Morro da Pedra is located outside the urban area of Taquara, and the closest school is three miles away. As there weren't bicycles for everyone, he organized shifts – those who studied in the afternoon loaned their bicycles to the students in the morning classes, and vice-versa.

One day, talking with his mother's boss, American consultant Fritz Louderback, the boy confessed: what he most wanted was to see the poor children in school. Louderback was surprised with the maturity and social conscience of Cristiano, who already worked, studied and seemed to be more concerned about the problems of others than about his own. Soon the American was donating bicycles to those who still didn't have them and telling the story to a friend, doctor and chiropractor Everett Langhans, also American, who lives in the nearby city of Novo Hamburgo and who made himself available to give free treatment to the children of Morro da Pedra. “The willingness to help was contagious", said Langhans. “I arrive there to meet the people and orient them and I already perceived a change. They were full of enthusiasm and took the initiative to perform simple tasks, like airing out bedclothes in the sun, to avoid diseases."

If it weren't for Cristiano, people like Langhans would never have gone to Morro da Pedra, and the inhabitants there would still be resigned in the face of difficulties. But with Cristiano, they have gained hope. The boy, now 18 years old, think of everything, even in leisure activities for the boys and girls of the neighborhood. "As I like to play soccer, I thought that they too would enjoy it, so I organized a children's team", explained the timid adolescent.

Cristiano's timidity appears only to grow when he tells of what he's done. Every night he knocks on his neighbors' doors to see if they need something. While there he checks the children's oral hygiene and if they've been truant from school. When it's to do good for others, he's not embarrassed to ask. He made a proposal to his dentist: “I know you need work and that many people need a dentist. Who knows, perhaps you could offer your services at a lower price?” She agreed.

It was stories like this, of determination and simplicity, coming from a poor boy, that led Americans Fritz Louderback and Everett Langhans to enter Cristiano in World of Children, an American organization which awards prizes to those who fight to help children all over the world.

They sent a DVD to the United States showing Cristiano's routine and his care for his poorer neighbors. “We learned that the people on the commission that chose the winners cried on seeing the images", reveals doctor Langhans. Nothing less: along with doctors, teachers and founders of entities that serve minors, Cristiano was the only youth to receive a prize of $15,000. From one moment to the next, there he was, in November, 2005, for the ceremony awarding the prize. He saw New York in a chauffeured car, and was taken to the headquarters of Unicef, where he found himself in the presence of celebrities such as boxing champion Muhammad Ali and the city's ex-mayor, Rudolph Giuliani.

“One of Muhammad Ali's assistants came to ask me how they could help me", said Cristiano, still surprised. “Immediately, I remembered that many students missed classes simply because they don't have watches." Without hesitation, the aide asked how many watches he needed. The boy tried to respond, modestly, that 14 would be enough. But, as he was nervous and stumbled over the language, his "fourteen" sounded like "forty", and Cristiano wound up returning to Brazil with 40 watches given by the boxer. He guarantees he found owners for all of them.

Cristiano is proud of having permanent allies in Americans Louderback and Langhans. He is no longer alone: it's the three, together, that think of a solution for the communities' problems. One of their next projects is to make available, on a farm that was ceded to them, riding lessons and hot baths for a poor population which, even in the severe winters of the southern mountains, have only cold showers at home.

The American “godfathers” also want the boy to study medicine, and urged him to invest the World of Children prize money in his studies. For now, what is decided is that he will travel this month to New York, where he should stay for two years studying English. Cristiano is more worried, however, with the future of the children of Morro da Pedra: “If they do not study, their destiny will be heavy work in the regions' quarries. I want to show that the ideal is to study to find a better job and a better future."

[Caipora]

Barbara, Fritz Louderback's companion, is now back at home, since Wednesday the third, for health reasons. She is 72, and by one account has suffered three strokes in the past, and lost 15 pounds while in jail.

However, she is out of jail.

That tells us the judge is willing to listen to reason, and that is a very good sign.

There are other good signs I won't go into.

I'd prepared a longer post, but I'll boil it down. There are legal deadlines when people are behind bars, at some point the police have to say what they're holding them for.

The charges the police have come up with do, I admit, meet with my professional admiration. However, I'm a marketing professional (among other things), not a lawyer. The cop has done a fine job of pushing reporters' buttons, and concealing that some charges he's made loudly to the press (feelthy pictures) he hasn't made to the judge.

One charge I'll mention, "corrupting minors". Same thing Socrates was accused of. A bit has been posted on one of the young men, Cristiano, readers here can decide if he was corrupted.

- Caipora

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The video linked by Davin does have some images I hadn't seen previously.

The young man in white briefs shown from the back at the 19 second mark in the video is either Cristiano, mentioned in the other thread, or his brother.

As said at length in the other thread I've followed the case in the Brazilian press and it has all the signs of being a police frame-up.

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Here's an update to the story.


If this is true it shows that not everyone who goes to a nudist resort is there for wholesome reasons. The really bad thing is that this is another black eye for nudism. The media and most people who read the story won't take the time to find what nudism really is. It will just reaffirm some people's belief that nudists are perverts and campgrounds are just covers for shady activites.
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<HR style="COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->I know that this news is a little old, but I just found it today and didn't see it posted here.

Brazilian police have arrested a U.S. couple suspected of sexually abusing minors at a nudist colony in southern Brazil

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[DoctorSurferDude]

I remain optimistic for their sakes. But there is no vindication on the back end. The media attention has moved on, and "Nudists in Brazil found completely innocent" is not going to make the headlines. The damaging headline has come and gone....and the damage is done no matter the outcome.

[Caipora]

News from January 9, from the site of the state Prosecutor's office:
http://www.mp.rs.gov.br/imprensa/noticias/id13051.htm

09/01/2008 - Crime
Pedophilia: North American couple will be indicted

An indictment is a formal statement of charges, submitted by a prosecutor or (in the U.S.) a grand jury to a judge, who accepts it or not. If it's accepted, the accused moves from "suspect" to "defendant".

On the bright side, it gives an actual charge of an actual crime, which they can defend against. Which is a lot easier than punching fog.

For those who would like a fight card, the prosecutor, Natália Cagliari, turns up a lot of Civil Service exam scores on the Internet, and not much out. I'll read that as an indication she's interested in advancing here career in the most straightforward way possible.

A Brazilian couple is also under arrest, including the president of the Brazilian Naturism Federation, André Herdy. He seems to have a new lawyer, Ademir Costa Campana. Apparently, Campana, an ex-policeman, some years ago was acquitted in the death of Mrs. Campana. He sound a bit more hard-core than Herdy's earlier lawyer who described the police action as "a misunderstanding". An ex-policeman may understand the situation better.

The article itself is tendentious. Which is terrific, as it's on the state's official site. Usually the press can say they're just reporting what the police do, the police say they're just informing what's in the public interest, and even when it's obviously a big fat lie, it's hard to pin down who's to blame. But here it's the state's press secretary, and he's wearing both hats and has nowhere to hide.

- Caipora

[Centauri4]

This is just one reason why having a social liaison & translator accompanying them everywhere would have been a good idea.

Even the best of intentions can be misinterpreted in a single language situation, so what the heck were these people doing?

[Naturist Mark]

Even the best of intentions can be misinterpreted in a single language situation, so what the heck were these people doing?

Helping poor people in Brazil is a good way to arouse suspicion and anger.

[Caipora]

Helping poor people in Brazil is a good way to arouse suspicion and anger.
Naturist Mark is quite correct, there were press reports that some of the middle-class nudists had been making efforts for years to keep those nasty poor people out of their resort.
A misunderstanding?
No. When the police are displaying "Lion King" post cards as child pr0n, and the press is accepting it, it's a "misunderstanding" in precisely the same sense as Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
The damaging headline has come and gone....and the damage is done no matter the outcome.I'm afraid that's looking at it optimistically. The Brazilian Federation of Naturism chose to run for the hills when its President was arrested. In doing so they've painted a target on their well-tanned behinds. "Need some quick publicity to help your career? We're here! Pick one, the rest will run!"

Freedom of the press is less absolute in Brazil than in the U.S., the law does let you require that they "take it back". In theory, at least. Of course, that does nothing for the rest of the world. Even if the wire services run the story, the papers that picked up the lie will find the truth tedious.

- Caipora

[Caipora]

Things aren't looking good. Not from the angle of whether or not Barbara, Fritz and the others are innocent, but from the angle of whether they'll get a fair trial.

Secrecy has been declared in the trial, supposedly to protect the identity of those the police claim are victims. This is absurd. The state court's site has and continues to publish the names of the fathers of seven of the supposed victims, and the community is small are surely the names are well known to all the neighbors. And Brazilian law prohibits the press from publishing the names of the minors, their photos, or identifying details.

Accusations have been made publicly from the first moment, when television cameras accompanied the police in their invasion of the Americans' home. Press coverage and police and prosecution accusations have been incessant. The accused have been jailed, in my view, largely to prevent them from defending themselves. Finally they have the chance to tell their side in open court - and now, only now, the press is barred from hearing the case?

The declaration of secrecy also provided the police with a handy excuse to not explain their behavior. "Why did you invite the press along for the arrests, and accuse the Americans of abusing children without any parents or children saying there had been abuse?" "The case is covered by secrecy and I can't comment."

The prosecutor returned an indictment, and the substitute judge accepted it. While this is in a certain way good - there is now actual a defined charge rather than vague allegations, and there's no defense against vague allegations - it makes it harder to charge the policeman for misconduct. If there's enough evidence to persuade a prosecutor, the theory is that he wasn't entirely off the wall.

Of course, there are Nifongs here, too.

One thing of particular concern is that early reports said the children denied any abuse, a "forensic psychiatrist" produced a report saying they'd been abused in infancy. This was ballyhooed as one of the cabal proofs that the allegations had merit. However, the judge, astonishingly, asked the police in mid-January to kindly send along the psychiatrist's report - it apparently wasn't included among the over 500 pages of police inquiry.

The press didn't Google the psychiatrist, or they would have found that she's only a trainee and did her family-violence specialization at a school not then accredited. But the Brazilian press never does question accusations or accusers.

There seem to be at present 37 charges against 7 defendants. Just what the charges are, and against who, has not been published. And is now sealed.

An article from January 29 gives some more quantitative information:
About 40 images were annexed to the over 679 pages of trial documents, a large part of them of nude children.
The next audience, still not scheduled, will be to hear the 33 prosecution witnesses.
http://zerohora.clicrbs.com.br/zerohora/jsp/default2.jsp?uf=1&local=1&source=a1751184.xml&template=3898.dwt&edition=9212&section=69

That there are 679 pages means volume, not quantity; and all we know of the quality is that a document described as highly significant, the psychiatrist's report, wasn't included. Even if we didn't know the shrink was a trainee with an uncertified degree, we'd have to wonder if it was not included because it says a great deal less that the police claim it does. And of course having or taking photos of nude children is not a crime.

Calling thirty-three witnesses is absurd. It's just not possible that 33 people knew their neighbors were abusing children. There's a usual limit in Brazil of eight (don't ask, it's traditional) and they must have upped that with multiple defendants or multiple "victims". In a civil trial one calls elevated numbers of witnesses not to prove facts, but to delay judgment. I'm assuming this is a stalling tactic.

One small cheerful item. The case is described on the state court system's site as "Crime against Sexual Liberty". That has a sound, at Carnaval, that is probably different than the lawmakers intended.

I think when this is finally played out the case will be seen as a crime against liberty; against the liberty to dress and do as one pleases; the crime of diverging from conformance with middle-class values (especially when those values include turning up one's nose at the poor); the crime of doing good in one's own fashion instead of giving money to "professionals" who will use some small part for the greater good, after taking the greater part for their own well-being. Mostly it will be seen as a crime against the liberty to march to a different drummer, and the liberty to be left in peace.

- Caipora

[atalanta]

A very sad situation. Foreigners operating outside the cocktail party circuit are fair game. Those who might be inclined to defend the accused are unlikely to come forward: viz Caipora's comment - "The Brazilian Federation of Naturism chose to run for the hills when its President was arrested. "
I lived in Brazil for some years and although the attractions of staying were quite considerable, weighing up the pros and cons I decided, with a wife and young children, that we should leave. There were just too many concerns about personal safety, health care, education (although there are good international schools, considerations still arise).
One of the world's top surgeons in his speciality was responsible for the death of a colleague of mine due to a criminally negligent absence of post-operative care. He wanted his cheque signed before the patient was properly out of anaesthetic. Fortunately the signature was so bad that the bank would not pay it. But as for compensation - forget it! You do not go into even a private hospital without taking a "minder" to make sure you get fed, given the right medicines at the right times and see a doctor occasionally. Unfortunately, when my colleague's Brazilian girlfriend told staff that his leg was turning blue she was told that was "normal".
The justice system did not really come into my decision, but would have if I had thought about it.

[walter05]

I have flown to Brazil for a couple of business trips.

Each time, when receiving the customs declaration, there was an enclosed warning about having sex with minors.

There were signs in the Sao Paulo airport about this while waiting to see an immigration officer.

It is clear that there is a problem with westerners going to Brazil with plans to have sex with children.

I asked my Brazilian business contacts and they said this is a problem. They said that foreigners like to have sex with children because they believe that they are less likely to have diseases. As a result, in poor areas, it is not uncommon for a family to be supported by daughters, and more often sons having sex with foreigners.

I was told that even many so called straight foreigners prize sex with the boys.

As a result, it was clear to me that I would avoid any possibility that an action of mine could be misunderstood.

I am not saying that the Brazilian authorities are correct. However, these Americans are either guilty of stupidity or worse.

[Caipora]

The usual judge for the court is back in the saddle. The Brazilian couple have been heard - the president of the Federation of Naturists, and his wife - as have three fathers whose sons are supposedly victims.

An article in the local paper has a few quotes from the prosecutor. Let's look at them, with a bit of emphasis:

The prosecutor believes that there is sufficient proof for a conviction, with photos, medical exams, psychological evaluations, even with the victims denying. "All of the accused are denying their involvement and are working with the same line of defense. The victims are also denying what happened", Natália emphasized.
http://www.ziptop.com.br/jornalnh/noticias/noticias_interna.asp?canal=8&ed=6&ct=502&cd=104455

As previously noted here, after the indictment was accepted, the substitute judge ordered that the psychological exams be annexed to the paperwork. So they weren't before, he didn't have them, the prosecutor didn't either.

The prosecutor made some very serious charges, and the judge accepted them, against the word of the supposed victims, based on papers from a psychiatric trainee.

Papers they hadn't read.

What you hear above is the voice of a prosecutor who's finally realized where she is.

And that she doesn't have a paddle.

On the photos, we've been told, explicitly, that they don't include Louderback. Presumably, they don't include Barbara. Nothing has been said on if the arrested Brazilians appear, but the silence probably means no.

The 33 witnesses mentioned earlier were described by the prosecutor in the article above as
"16 victims and 17 witnesses". We've already heard the "victims" are saying there was no abuse. The witnesses clearly know less than the victims.

Now you know more than people who read the Brazilian press.

- Caipora

[atalanta]

Where does the allegation of trafficking children to the USA come from? I don't recall previous mention of this.

[Caipora]

Where does the allegation of trafficking children to the USA come from? I don't recall previous mention of this.

Well, they may have them on that one. It seems that Fritz and Barbara's godson, Cristiano Fedrigo, went to Unicef in New York in November of 2005, when he was only 17, to receive a $15,000 award for the work he'd done for the poor. There's a Reader's Digest article on Cristiano above in the thread.

And Fritz, a retired Navy pilot, claims he'd gotten the U.S. Air Force or Navy to fly a girl born with no hands to the U.S. for surgery.

So there's at least two instances of "trafficking children to the USA".
[/sarcasm]

That really does seem to be what that charge is based on.

- Caipora

[atalanta]

[Quote]So there's at least two instances of "trafficking children to the USA".

Yeah, well that's really down and dirty!

[Caipora]

Well, the dam's broken. Brazil's largest newspaper, the Folha de S. Paulo, has spoken to witnesses against the jailed Americans, and found the kids were threatened by police to make the charges.

It's all over but the shouting. There will be a good deal of that yet, but now that there's daylight between the press and the police, the breach will only widen. The judge is a woman with a passion for justice (I read her master's thesis), and there will be justice, with a passion.

I don't know why this article appeared now, but I know why it appeared. Before Christmas, I pleaded with the Folha to look behind the charges. Under my real name, I stuck my neck way out, and staked my reputation on this. Not a great reputation, but the only one I've got.

For evil to succeed, all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

Fritz Lauderback, Barbara Anner, and Cristiano Fedrigo have by all accounts done much to make the world a better place. André Herdy, as president of the Brazilian Federation of Naturism, done much for a cause not quite so significant, if much appreciated here. The Federation unseated and abandoned him in his hour of need.

Now the pendulum is swinging. I helped push it back, even though I had to stand in its path to do so.

I am content.

- Caipora


Youth said he lied in accusing American couple of pedophilia

16 year old adolescent said that he made the accusation because he suffered aggression and was threatened by police; father registered complaint with Internal Affairs bureau

Police claim they found photos with images of sex between adults and children at the Americans' house, in a naturist community in the south

Simone Inglêisas
Of the Folha Agency, in Taquara

One of the witnesses who made accusations of pedophilia against the North American couple Barbara Anner, 72, and Frederick Louderback, 64, affirmed that he lied to the police because he suffered aggression.

Anner, Louderback and a Brazilian couple, André Herdy and Cleci Jaeger, 35, are jailed since December 11 and were indicted on the accusation of deviant sexual acts, corruption of minors, conspiracy, and the production and distribution of images of sex with children and adolescents. They deny the accusations.

The courts in Taquara (73 km from Porto Alegre) accepted the indictment by the Prosecutors' Office against the couples and against three fathers of boys who were supposedly abused.

A 16-year-old adolescent, called by the police to testify as a witness, first denied involvement with those indicted, but later confirmed the abuse, saying that Louderback masturbated in front of him. The deposition took place on December 18.

But, at the beginning of January, the youth's father registered a complaint at the Internal Affairs bureau of the Civil Police, in Porto Alegre, saying that his son was coerced. The youth repeated the accusation in an interview to the Folha, accompanied by his father. The police deny it (read text on this page).

"A policeman gave me a knock on the head, said that I would be arrested, that I would spend the rest of my life in jail. He kicked the chair I was sitting in several times. He also said that the police would get in line to rape me", said the boy.

According to his father, the boy "was kept for more than seven hours without eating, without water, and without being able to go to the bathroom".

He said that his son made the accusation in order to be freed. "The police made my boy lie. They said that he would rot in jail. My son had never entered a police station, he was terrified. He told me that he despaired and lied", the father affirmed.

The police collected at the couples' houses, in the naturist community of Colina do Sol, photos with nude boys, and CDs and DVDs with images of sex between adults and children. This reporter did not have access to the photos.

Besides the photographic material and the witnesses' testimony, the accusation is based on psychological reports done by psychiatrist Heloísa Meyer, which point to "strong hints of sexual abuse" in at least six boys. To the Folha, Meyer said that she could not detail the reports because her profession demands judicial secrecy.

According to the police, the four gave presents and money to children of a poor community, neighboring Colina do Sol, with the intent of abusing them. They also helped the children's parents, providing for the repair of their homes.

The adolescent's father is among those indicted by prosecutor Natália Cagilari for "submission and inducing to prostitution or sexual exploitation, connivance and corruption of minors." He denies it, affirming that the suspect couples are being punished for helping the needy community.

The police said that they began to investigate the case based on complaints from the fathers of children supposedly abused and by residents of Colina do Sol.

(São Paulo, Sunday, February 10, 2008)

[atalanta]

Hmm...a start maybe but this article does not seem to go very far in knocking a hole through this case and repeats significant accusations without any indication of their rebuttal. I though perhaps there was more in the original article but, having looked up 'Folha', I see you have it all in your translation. Anyhow, congratulations Caipora on your intervention with the Press.

[Caipora]

From Taquara's local newspaper, <b>Panorama</b>, Friday, March 27, 2009 – Page 10 - General News

<b>American will reactivate New Faces Association</b>

North American Frederic Calvin Louderback is announcing the return to activity of New Faces Association, which had been performing social work in the Morro da Pedra Locality, on the boundary between the towns of Taquara and Parobé. The NGO had its activity interrupted at the end of 2007, when Louderback himself, who is also known as Fritz, was jailed along with his spouse Barbara, on the accusation of involvement in pedophilia. This past January, the couple was freed by means of a habeas corpus, which also benefited Brazilians André Herdy and Cleci Ieggli da Silva.

[Photo of Fritz with legend “Louderback: Community asks for project’s return”]

Last week, Fritz was personally at Jornal Panorama, along with a countryman, to speak of his plans. He explained that he is trying to return to normal life, along with his wife, despite the trauma suffered when he was arrested and the subsequent 13-month stay in the Porto Alegre Central Prison.

According to him, when the case exploded in the press, there was a natural cessation of the financial contributions that had been made to New Faces. Now, however, many of the former collaborators are willing to start donating again, believing in the innocence of Louderback and the others accused.

The North American revealed that, even behind bars, he did not give up his charitable activities, giving English lessons to the prisoners who divided the cell with him. Already free, at the beginning of February, after being sought out by residents of Morro da Pedra, he helped children in the locality with the purchase of school material for the new school year that was about to begin.

The first step, according to what he announced, will be to reactivate the soccer project that was being developed on Saturdays at the Morro da Pedra community gymnasium. “The residents are asking”, he guaranteed, adding that the initiative should involve about 100 minors, both boys and girls. Besides this, there is a plan for a greater involvement of the feminine public in the activities, possibly though rhythmic gymnastics.

Louderback also said that the would like to continue helping, with treatment overseas, children who have health problems whose families do not have the financial ability to cover the costs. “The problems is that we run a serious risk of being accused of international smuggling”, he considered.

[Gray box, below.]

<b>“There are no victims, there are no witnesses, there is no evidence”</b>

Frederick Louderback did not want to go too deeply into the accusation of the practice of pedophilia which was brought against him, but said that he prays every day for he end of the judicial secrecy which wraps the trial. “It doesn’t protect either me, or the children”, he underlined, repeating the version of total innocence in the case. “There are no victims, there are no witnesses, there is no evidence in any of this they charged us with”, he added.

Asked about how he feels after having gone through more than a year in jail, he unbuttoned his shirt and showed the scars of injuries suffered in Vietnam, when the airplane he was piloting was shot down during the was fought by the United States in that Asian country. “I can feel that I was hit, and the scars are there, but little by little I’m improving”, he guaranteed, pondering that the attacks came from within Colina do Sol itself, and not from Morro da Pedra.

Fritz also complained that he is having his civil rights violated and his freedom constricted inside the naturist community, where he is again living after he was freed from prison. “Some of the people there have the idea that the laws of Brazil end at the gates of Colina do Sol and that there inside they can do whatever they want”, he commented. He said, for example, that he thought very strange the fact that several establishments installed in the locality, such as the hotel, hostel and restaurant, don’t display any documentation showing that they are complying with legislation so that they can operate, differently than what is true of commerce in general.