A heartless mother and her cruel boyfriend were arrested for beating, electrocuting and submerging in water her 7-year-old son before he died, authorities in Brazil said.
His 10-year-old brother was found with two black eyes, burned with cigarettes and his body covered with multiple bruises, police in the São Paulo city of Avaré said.
He told cops that he also had been electrocuted.
The body of the slain boy, identified as Carlos Santos, showed signs of 'strangling, punches, shocks with electrical wires' and that he 'was submerged in a bucket of water as a form of drowning,' Civil Police chief Levon Torossian told G1.
Carlos' body, including the genital area, was bruised.
Cops arrested Texeira after Carlos was pronounced dead Wednesday morning at a hospital in Avaré.
His mother, Sara Santos, was apprehended Thursday after attempting to flee from the police.
Carlos Santos was pronounced Wednesday morning upon his arrival at local hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. The seven-year-old - and his 10-year-old brother - were the victims of severe beating and electrocutions. Authorities arrested his mother, Sara Santos, and her boyfriend, Dione Texeira
Dione Texeira (left) and Sara Santos (right) were arrested Wednesday and Thursday, respectively, following the death of Santos' seven-year-old son, Carlos Santos, at the home the couple shared in the Brazilian city of Avaré. Texeira told police that Carlos Santos had chocked on food before he fell from a stair, but investigators later learned through the child's 10-year-old brother that the children were the victims of beating, including his younger brother who had been submerged in
