An envious Brazilian woman allegedly poisoned her co-worker after the latter received a promotion on Valentine's Day. Both women worked at a local textile factory in Abadia de Goiás, a municipality in the state of Goiás. Video footage shows the exact moment when the alleged poisoning took place.
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According to the Daily Mail, the suspect, who remains anonymous, quickly became enraged when her female co-worker received a promotion, as announced by their boss on February 14, Valentine's Day. She was so annoyed that she confronted the woman, engaging in a heated argument between the two.
Video footage shows that, once the promoted woman exited the room, the jealous and angry suspect would make her way into an area where water bottles were stored. Blinded by jealousy, the footage shows the suspect then picking up her co-worker's water bottle and dumping an unspecified substance inside it.
Moments later, the promoted woman would pick up her water bottle and drink it. Immediately, the woman felt something was wrong. Her mouth was burned by the substance the jealous woman allegedly dumped inside the bottle. She immediately received medical aid, although her current health status is unknown.
As a result of the incident, the jealous woman was arrested by local police on Thursday, February 27. Reportedly, she has been charged with attempted murder and faces a 20-year sentence should she be found guilty.
Similar Incidents
This recent alleged poisoning is far from the first case reported in the South American country. A 42-year-old woman named Deise Moura dos Anjos was arrested after allegedly poisoning her family members. Three of them died after eating an arsenic-laced Christmas cake. Moura, however, was found dead in her jail cell, a month after she was arrested and charged with triple homicide and triple attempted homicide.
Similarly, a Brazilian mother, Francisca da Silva, two of her children, Igno and Maria, and her brother, Manoel, tragically died after eating rice contaminated with a pesticide. The family reportedly ate the food on New Year's Day. Notably, just months before her tragic death, two other of Francisca's children, João and Ulisses, also died in similar circumstances. Before their deaths, both of them ate cashews gifted by one of their neighbors.
