A 26-year-old foreign citizen was arrested on Thursday, October 15, by the Judicial Police for being suspected of the practice of an aggravated child sexual abuse crime. The victim is his half sister, “with only four years, with whom he lived”. He was in protective custody.
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16/10/2026
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Um 26-year-old foreign citizen was arrested on Thursday, October 15, by the Judiciary Police (PJ), through the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Board, for being suspected of a crime of sexual abuse of children aggravated. The victim is his half sister, “with only four years, with whom he lived”.
The information was revealed by PJ in notified sent to the essays, in which it is further advanced that “the facts under investigation will have occurred on 20 august, and material elements that could support the evidence of the practice of crime have been identified”.
The investigation “integrated the expertise of the Scientific Police Laboratory of PJ, in close collaboration with the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, whose results contributed to the consolidation of the evidence collected“.
Following the steps taken and the evidence gathered, the Judicial Police in the same note reveals that “the competent arrest warrant has been issued by the Public Prosecutor, under which the suspect was located and detained.”
The man was present the first judicial interrogation before the Court of Loures, and it was applied the measure of coercion of preventive detention.