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Rope Jump Instructors Don't Remember Who Was Supposed to Attach Cord Before Woman's Fatal Fall, Investigators Say
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Key Points:
- Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, 21, died after falling approximately 131 feet from the Ponte do Esqueleto bridge in São Paulo, Brazil, on June 13 during a rope jump without a safety cord attached.
- Three instructors involved in the jump were arrested and charged with homicide with dolus eventualis, as authorities believe they were aware of the death risk but proceeded anyway.
- The instructors claimed they do not remember who was responsible for attaching or checking the safety ropes, and the group operating the jump was not authorized to conduct the activity at the site.
- Video footage showed Rodrigues de Freitas being lifted and launched "airplane style" by instructors, with onlookers shouting warnings that she was not secured by a safety rope.
- Rodrigues de Freitas had hoped to become a physical education teacher and was buried on June 15; six people were questioned in connection with the incident, but only the three instructors remain in custody.
