Woman who pretended to be a child abandoned childish voice at police station Civil Police Chief Luana Tamiozzo Medeiros investigated, in 2021, Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira, 37, a woman who presented herself as an 11 or 12 year old girl called Gabrielly da Silva Ferreira. She passed through different cities in Rio Grande do Sul and showed aggressive behavior in one of the houses that welcomed her. "She started to get aggressive with the other child out of jealousy," he said. 📲 Access the g1 RS channel on WhatsApp The residence had another child living there and it was precisely this behavior that was the reason for the start of an investigation by the 2nd Cachoeirinha Police Station, five years before the case in which the suspected embezzlement became known throughout the country after the arrest in Santa Catarina. "They came to talk to me because the girl was acting strange, nervous. Needles and nails were coming out of her," he said. When she saw Amanda for the first time, Luana says she immediately suspected her age: "When they came to bring me, I thought: 'That's not a girl, it's a woman'. I was immediately suspicious and saw that it wasn't, it was a woman." Faced with doubts about the woman's identity, the police and the Public Prosecutor's Office requested preventive detention. At that time, Amanda was already admitted to a hospital. The arrest occurred after medical discharge. The operation required special care due to the state of health of the person being investigated. "We had to be careful with her fall because she had a lot of iron in her body. Her arrest was the craziest thing in the world", recalled the delegate. Amanda spent six months in prison for the crime of embezzlement until her prison sentence was relaxed by the courts. 'Okay, Amanda, that's enough': deputy remembers when woman who pretended to be a child abandoned her childish voice 37-year-old woman who pretended to be 12 passed through five cities in RS and was imprisoned for six months; see trajectory Woman who pretended to be a teenager was diagnosed with 'factitious disorder and pseudology fantastica' in 2021 The first suspicions Before her arrest, Amanda had been welcomed by families and monitored by public services after presenting herself as a child in a vulnerable situation, including in the city of Cachoeirinha. The first suspicions arose when people involved in the reception went to the police. Unable to confirm who the alleged teenager was, the police chief decided to look for similar cases on the internet. The research ended up being decisive for the investigation. "I Googled 'girl with irons on her body', something like that. And then I discovered that this had been happening for ten years," he said. The search led to records of similar occurrences in other states. The delegate then contacted a delegate from Bahia and sent a photograph of the woman, who confirmed that it was indeed Amanda. From then on, the police began to reconstruct Amanda's trajectory across the country. According to the delegate, the investigation showed that she moved between states hitchhiking with truck drivers. 'She wanted to have a family' After admitting her true identity, Amanda also spoke about the reasons that led her to assume characters and seek shelter from strangers, according to the delegate. "She confessed to me and argued that the reason was that she wanted to have a family. In her statement, she never said it was to do harm," said Luana. Amanda was indicted by the Civil Police. The case later began to be processed in the Rio Grande do Sul Court, but was suspended, as she had not been located. Recently, she was arrested again in Santa Catarina, where she is being investigated for once again presenting herself as a teenager to obtain shelter. Amanda Maria's defense is unaware of the details of the case filed against her in Rio Grande do Sul and also said that she will speak out in the records of the case taking place in Santa Catarina. 37-year-old woman pretends to be 12 and is arrested for embezzlement 1 year after being adopted in SC Infographic - Fake teenager Art/g1 Bottle-feeding Mounjaro as a 37-year-old woman who pretended to be 12 years old to deceive SC family acted Social networks/Reproduction 37-year-old woman 'adopted' after pretending to be 12 Civil Police/Reproduction VIDEOS: Everything about RS