On Friday, may 17, the new York city police said that arrested Martin Pereira from valley stream (long island) on charges of murdering his 3-year-old daughter Zoe Pereira: girl burned alive in the car. In addition, the man was charged with arson and criminal indifference and inaction.
5 may at about 21:00 911 in Queens was reported burning on Baisley Boulevard and 155th Street car Audi A6. When the police arrived, Pereira was also in the car, but then jumped from it and began to run away from the scene: his burning clothes saw a good Samaritan passing by. He was using blankets brought down fire from Pereira, but he jumped into a nearby pond in Baisley Pond Park and they tried to hide from the police. But the man was eventually taken into custody with burns 2 and 3 degrees (burned 70% of his body) was taken to the burn unit Weill Cornell Medical Center.
Later, police determined that this incident is not a tragic accident but a murder and the main suspect in the death of the baby is her own father.
As it turned out, the parents of Zoe, a 39-year-old Martin Pereira and 36-year-old Sharon Coleman was embroiled in a bitter fight over custody of the child. Before they were engaged, but a few months ago a woman broke off the engagement. Relatives Coleman said that after the break he was acting «crazy».
«I always thought that he was going to hurt me,» said Coleman. «I never thought that he was going to hurt my daughter.»
The grieving mother said that she tried to court to modify their agreement on the visit to Pereira had not seen the girl, as he became more and more vindictive, but the court ruled in her favor. Now it is incredibly regrets that he disobeyed a court order and allowed the father to take the girl sometimes. «I should leave her and go to jail,» said the next day after the tragedy, grief-stricken mother.
That weekend she was killed Zoe was the second time Pereira was allowed to be a child since he and Coleman broke up. A few minutes before the arson, he called the girl’s mother. Describing his call, she said that he said crazy things, some of which she even could not understand, but that it was dismantled — sounded scared, because he said, «Now I got your attention, bitch? You’re listening to me now, bitch? You will never see your daughter again».
Male baby doomed to a horrible death. The girl was strapped in his car seat, the car door was locked from the inside with a thick chain so that they could quickly open and time to save the baby. To set a fire, the man doused the car with petrol – the police found a canister on the street and another one in the trunk of the car from which the gasoline pipe was asleep in the back seat. Zoey didn’t have a chance.
All the relatives of the baby in shock from what happened. «He killed the child. He burned her alive. He did this to her. It’s not even man is an animal. It is a coward,» said an aunt of the deceased girl. And another added: «frankly, I hope that he will «die a painful death.»
