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<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong>Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira will spend a year and half in jail after leeching off the kindness of a couple she deceived into caring for her being a disadvantaged minor, and lying to explain her grown-up appearance </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong>Claiming to be 12, the 38-year-old pretended to be handicapped and to have the mental age of a child, going as far as drinking milk from bottles and sucking on dummies </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong>Oliveira attending services at an evangelical church in Joinville, southern Brazil presented herself as Gabriele, <strong>an 18-year-old </strong>seeking work </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong>Living in with a kind family who offered her shelter, she later reduced her age to 12, claimed to be severely autistic pre-teen, only looking 40 because her dad forced her to take hormone treatment early</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong>When a relative of the host couple researched and exposed Oliveira&#8217;s record of age scams she was arrested and prosecuted for fraud </strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong>Oliveira after her arrest admitted to multiple age fraud scams across 9 states in Brazil spanning over 15 years</strong></p>



<p class="has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph" style="color:#2a0909;font-size:14px"><strong><strong>The jury rejected her mental illness for and convicted for &#8217;emotionally kidnapping&#8217; the couple who took her in</strong> </strong></p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira, 38, leeched off the kindness of the couple by convincing them to care for her, and lying to explain her grown-up appearance. eventually admitted the elaborate ruse and admitting to a life of serial life affecting several victim families &#8211; leading to her eventual conviction</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">A 38-year-old Brazilian woman has ended up in jail for extreme and elaborate age deception scam with the aim of fleecing kindly people who fell for her web of lies.<br>Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira was convicted for leeching off the kindness of the couple by convincing them to care for her, and lying to explain her grown-up appearance.She has been jailed for &#8217;emotionally kidnapping&#8217; a couple who took her in.<br>At nearly 40, Oliveira claimed to be a 12-year-old girl. She pretended to be handicapped and to have the mental age of a child – even drinking milk from bottles and sucking on dummies. ;<br>After the extraordinary ruse was uncovered she faced prosecution. She has been sentenced to a year-and-a-half in prison at the conclusion of the fraud case that caught national attention in Brazil ended in her conviction.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira, <strong>She has been jailed a year and half in jai</strong>l. The 38-year-old woman pretended to be a 12-year-old girl to exploit a couple&#8217;s kindness &#8211; and said she had spun the same lies to a number of families over a span of 15 years</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">This particular schemes began with Oliveira attending services at an evangelical church in Joinville, in the south of Brazil.<br>Here she presented herself as an 18-year-old called Gabriele, and said she was seeking work.<br>The pastor introduced her to the couple who, in a humanitarian gesture invited Oliveira to stay with them for a while.<br>However, overtime the exaggeration in her biography worsened. She eventually told her hosts she was actually a 12-year-old girl.<br>That she had fled from abuse thousands of miles away in the northern state of Para.<br>Her explanation for looking like a 40-year-old? Her father had forced her to take hormonal supplements in early childhood, she claimed. <br>Her sympathetic hosts bought the story and for the next 14 months, Oliveira lived as their daughter and spun ever-more elaborate lies, including her claim of being severely autistic. <br>Her regression grew alarming as behaviour became increasingly akin to that of a baby, to the point of using baby bottles and dummies. She even managed to convince the host couple to pay for a course of weight-loss drugs.<br>The alarm was eventually raised by a relative of the couple, who were convinced that Oliveira was older than she claimed.<br>Through research online, she found reports from 2023 of someone called Amanda who had run a similar age deception scam in Rio de Janeiro. <br>The research proved the fraudster was the same woman who now known to be Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira.</p>



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<p class="has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Serial professional scam artiste buttressed her con by claiming her father forcing to take hormonal supplements from a young age was responsible for her look at least three decades older. However as she was arrested she owned up to her con</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Exposed, the fraudster was taken into custody without drama. When police arrived and entered her bedroom, Oliveira dropped the act immediately, addressing the officers in her normal, adult voice.<br>She would go on to admit to her deceit. She confessed that she had been working the scam across several Brazilian states, spanning over 15 years.<br>&#8216;It is clear that I deceived people; I lied. But I did not intend to scam anyone,&#8217; she told police.<br>Court records show she had pretended to be a child in nine different places: Parana, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Goias, Ceara, Rio Grande do Sul, Sao Paulo, Rio Grande do Norte and Mato Grosso do Sul.<br>A judge in Santa Catarina rejected Oliveira’s defense that she was mentally ill and therefore not criminally responsible, concluding that she had acted deliberately and consciously.<br>Oliveira’s lawyers argued at trial that their client had just been seeking the love and affection she was starved of as a child. <br>They told the court that Oliveira had done nothing more than adopt the &#8216;survival strategy&#8217; of a deeply troubled woman. <br>They have signaled their intention to appeal the judgement. <br>Meanwhile, prosecutors insist jail time was warranted, considering the financial and psychological damage Oliveira had inflicted on her victims.</p>



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Extreme Deception! Brazilian woman jailed for ’emotionally kidnap’, after 38-year-old serial age con artiste claimed to be a girl of 12 and to live off kindly couple who took her in
