Rafael Hermida Fonseca Savagely Abused Girlfriends Dogs Caught on Hidden Camera

Ninna Mandin posted two videos on her Facebook account last weekend after she had suspected her now ex-boyfriend, Rafael Hermida, of mistreating her two French bulldogs.
To find out whether her fears were misplaced or genuine, she installed a camera in her house in the Barra da Tijuca area of Rio. She caught Hermida slamming one of the dogs onto the ground and holding another by its hind legs and dropping it onto the ground. Ninna says that the love she felt for her fiancé disappeared instantly after viewing the video.
Mandin says that Fonseca had always been very affectionate towards her, her family and the dogs. However, she became suspicious when wounds began to appear on the animals, and when they began to display a marked fear of Fonseca. “They became really scared of him. After that, the wounds started to appear and the vet couldn’t explain where they were coming from. That’s when I decided to install a camera in the living room,” she says. Mandin says that the pain she feels for her dogs is worse than that she feels for the end of her engagement. “I’m not even thinking about the wedding. My pain is seeing what the dogs suffered.” The wedding had been planned for June. Fonseca is a lawyer, and owns part of a bar in the Barra neighborhood. He had lived with Nina and her mother for four months. The two first met a year and a half ago. “It was a shock, because we think we know people, but in reality we don’t,” says Mandin. “But now, I want justice before the law.” The case was reported to the police, who summoned Fonseca to make a statement on Tuesday. Reynaldo Velloso, president of the Commission of Protection and Defense of Animals of the Rio de Janeiro branch of the Order of Attorneys of Brazil, says that he will propose that the Public Prosecutor of Rio takes action against Fonseca for collective moral damage. “We have to stop this mistreatment. This is why we have to take action against the aggressor, because society is a passive subject in the face of this crime, and the social networks are proof of that,” he says. On the Facebook page of Buddy’s Bar, in which Fonseca owns a share, the other owners published a statement repudiating his actions and said that they will take legal action to remove him from the business. Even after publication of the statement, the bar continued to receive threats from other internet users.  A Facebook group proposing a protest this Friday outside the bar at Av. Armando Lombardi, 949 loja i, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro