Solon Brochado: You invite a few underage friends to your house by the beach. They gulp some drinks and decide to go for a stroll by the beach, without you. After a while, they decide to call you to pick them up and you, with no patience for a couple of giggly and inebriated girls, tells them to find their way home.

Seems like a reasonable conduct, right? Not to judge Iledete Veríssimo, from Ipojuca, in Pernambuco. She sentenced a 22-year-old student to two years and nine months in prison for allowing two teenage girls to “ingest alcoholic beverages” while they were staying at his house in 2003. The two girls ended up being murdered after hitchhiking from the beach later the same day.

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