PC confirms that boy found dead on land in Maceió was a victim of sexual abuse The Civil Police of Alagoas confirmed that the boy Peterson Ykaro Gomes Cardoso, 6 years old, was a victim of sexual abuse before he died. ?Join the g1 Alagoas channel The boy's body was found last Monday (6) in a vacant lot on Avenida José Moura Rocha, in the Cidade Universitária neighborhood, in the upper part of Maceió. It was covered in weeds. The main suspect in the crime is the victim's great-uncle, Emanuel Vicente, aged 46 (the boy's mother's uncle). He was arrested this Tuesday morning (7) near Utinga Station, in the municipality of Rio Largo, in the Metropolitan Region of the capital. To the police, the man denies having committed the crime. MORE that Peterson was murdered by asphyxiation. "This 46-year-old man is the minor's uncle and the main suspect of the sexual abuse and murder of the child. The Legal Medical Institute (IML) is the one who will determine the cause of death, but we are already working with the possibility that the victim was suffocated to death," said the delegate. Emanuel Vicente was arrested on suspicion of killing his grandnephew in Maceió - home Disclosure/PM-AL The Crime According to the Military Police, the boy's parents are divorced and, therefore, Peterson Ykaro spent the weekend with his father, reserve soldier Edílson Cupertino Cardoso. When he went to take his son to his ex-wife's house, on Monday (6), Érika Santos Gomes da Silva, the soldier found that she had not yet arrived from work. Therefore, he decided to leave the child at his maternal great-uncles' house. Peterson Ykaro Gomes Cardoso's body was found in a vacant lot in Maceió Reproduction/Personal archive Hours later, Érika Santos contacted her ex-husband to ask about her son and was informed that the boy had been left at his great-uncles' house. When she arrived at the scene, she found no one. Faced with the situation, the family began searching. According to witnesses, the child was seen holding hands with a man, walking towards the vacant lot covered in weeds. Shortly afterwards, the man would have left the place alone. A family member went to the land and found Peterson Ykaro's body. The cause of death has not yet been identified. Police said a cell phone was found next to the body. The suspicion is that it belongs to the victim's great-uncle. Teams from the Criminalistics (IC) and Legal Medical (IML) institutes were called to carry out the examination and collect the body. Agents from the Homicide and Personal Protection Police Station (DHPP) were also at the scene to begin investigations. Wasteland where Peterson Ykaro's body was found Disclosure/PM-AL