A woman in the Brazilian province São Paulo has been sentenced to 25 years in jail for murdering her 17-year-old son because of his sexual orientation.

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he had hired two hitmen, but when they refused to take the boy’s life, she took matters into her own hands, Out..tv reports.

Besides the mother, the two hitmen are also facing jail-time. The Brazilian magazine Veja reports they will be imprisoned for 21 years. The mother allegedly never accepted the sexual orientation of her son, who had come out as homosexual.

In December 2016, the mother lured her son, Itaberli Lozano, to her house. Lozano lived with his grandmother, because of his mother’s attitude to homosexuality. Under the assumption that his mother wanted to make up with him, he went to his mothers house. At his mothers house was beaten up by the two hired hitmen. When the hitmen refused to kill a child, the mother herself stabbed Lozano to death.

Lozano’s stepfather then helped to burn the body of the 17-year-old in a cane field. He still has to wait for his verdict, according to Out.tv.

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