El pare del nen era sergent de la ROTA (Rondas Ostensivas Tobias de Aguiar), una tropa d'elit de la Policia Militar (PM) de São Paulo, coneguda per assassinar indiscriminadament, i la mare era caporal de la PM.
The boy's father was the sergeant of the elite troop of Sao Paulo military police known as ROTA (an acronym for Tobias de Aguiar's Ostensive Rounds, in Portuguese) with a reputation for killing indiscriminately, and his mother was a corporal of the military police.