Anyone acting this way has very obvious psychiatric issues. Damn, anyone who infantilizes himself this consequently is probably not really fit to stand trial.
The case has apparently been suspended while she undergoes a psychological evaluation.
But even if she does have some kind of mental illness or fetishisation of infancy, it wouldn’t necessarily make her not criminally liable, would it? According to the article, it does look like she’s motivated in large part for personal material gain:
"The couple told police Oliveira first approached them at an evangelical church they attended, introducing herself as “Gabrielle” and claiming to be 18 years old. She reportedly said she was experiencing financial and health difficulties, prompting the couple to take her in.
She later allegedly changed her story, claiming she was in fact 11 but appeared older because her father had forced her to take hormones and had sexually abused her. She also allegedly persuaded the family not to enrol her in school or formalise any adoption process, arguing that doing so could enable her father to find her.
The alleged deception unravelled after an aunt who occasionally visited the family became suspicious of Oliveira’s age. After searching online, she found reports of a similar case in Rio de Janeiro three years earlier in which Oliveira had allegedly deceived another family."
Anyone acting this way has very obvious psychiatric issues. Damn, anyone who infantilizes himself this consequently is probably not really fit to stand trial.
The case has apparently been suspended while she undergoes a psychological evaluation.
But even if she does have some kind of mental illness or fetishisation of infancy, it wouldn’t necessarily make her not criminally liable, would it? According to the article, it does look like she’s motivated in large part for personal material gain:
"The couple told police Oliveira first approached them at an evangelical church they attended, introducing herself as “Gabrielle” and claiming to be 18 years old. She reportedly said she was experiencing financial and health difficulties, prompting the couple to take her in.
She later allegedly changed her story, claiming she was in fact 11 but appeared older because her father had forced her to take hormones and had sexually abused her. She also allegedly persuaded the family not to enrol her in school or formalise any adoption process, arguing that doing so could enable her father to find her.
The alleged deception unravelled after an aunt who occasionally visited the family became suspicious of Oliveira’s age. After searching online, she found reports of a similar case in Rio de Janeiro three years earlier in which Oliveira had allegedly deceived another family."