Brazilian au pair sentenced to 10 years in scheme to kill lover's wife and another man

Описание: (14 Feb 2026)
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Fairfax, Virginia - 13 February 2026
1. Brief shot of Juliana Peres Magalhães
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Judge Penney S. Azcarate, announcing sentence:
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"Your actions were deliberate, self-serving, and demonstrated a profound disregard for human life. So let's get it straight, you do not deserve anything other than incarceration and a life of reflection on what you have done to the victim in this family. May it weigh heavily on your soul. So today I'm sentencing you on a manslaughter charge, because that's what's before me, and the facts of this case demonstrate an intentional and calculated level of violence that is the most serious manslaughter scenario that the court has ever seen. Therefore I do sentence you to 10 years in the penitentiary, as required by Virginia Code 19.2.295.2."
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2. SOUNDBITE (English) Juliana Peres Magalhães, defendant:
"I will never forgive myself for the pain caused. I hope that my cooperation in this case... I hope, begin to hope, sorry, repair the damage caused. There is nothing I could possibly do to make it up to you, to your loss. Sorry. There are so many regrets. But this is my biggest. That's a tragedy I have been carrying with me and I will always do. It's something I have nightmares with. A tragedy I know I can never take back, the devastation of what I have done."
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STORYLINE:
An au pair who schemed with her employer-turned-lover to kill his wife and another man was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday in a northern Virginia courthouse.

Juliana Peres Magalhães pleaded guilty to a downgraded manslaughter charge in the February 2023 killing of Joseph Ryan. She testified that she fatally shot Ryan as Brendan Banfield was fatally stabbing his wife, Christine, in the couple's bedroom.

The sentencing comes after Magalhães agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in their case against Brendan Banfield, who was convicted by a jury this month of aggravated murder in the deaths of his wife and Ryan.

“I will never forgive myself for the pain caused,” Magalhães said at her sentencing hearing to Ryan and Christine’s families.

Magalhães and Banfield had an affair in the months leading up to the killings, and continued their relationship afterward, prosecutors said.

As part of her plea deal, her attorney and prosecutors agreed to recommend that she end her time behind bars at her sentencing hearing.

Chief Judge Penney Azcarate rejected that agreement. In Virginia, manslaughter is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

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