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05/04/2016
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A mall in the capital and its insurer were sentenced to indemnify for moral damage a child who had finger amputated after holding the foot of the escalators from the property. The 6th Private Law Chamber of the São Paulo Court of Justice ruled that the girl get R$ 40,000 and their parents R$ 30,000, in addition to being reimbursed for damages towards the costs of psychological and psychiatric treatment.
A child less than five years at the time of the facts, accompanied down the escalator when the father had the foot sucked in so far as the steps are the ground. A doctor who was walking through the mall could help to open the girl's boot. The accident resulted in the amputation of a finger.
According to the rapporteur of the appeal, Judge Paul Alcides, what happened to the child "in addition to aesthetic damage, generated anxiety and excessive despair in it and their progenitors, making it able to give rise to the repairs."
He also stated that "as a service provider, it was for the shopping ensure the physical and mental safety of customers who are in their establishment, where they are held consumer relations inherent to that professional practice."
Also participated in the trial the judges Eduardo Sá Pinto Sandeville and José Roberto Furquim Cabella. The vote was unanimous.
Source: From the Newsroom (Justice in Focus), with Id.
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