For Brazil's Minister of Women, "poor girls are raped because they do not wear panties"

Brazil's Minister of Women, Pastor Damares Alves, has again sparked controversy through one of her comments. On this occasion, the head of Jair Bolsonaro said that the large amount of badual abuse of minors in a region of the country This is because girls "do not usually wear underwear".

As part of an official act, Alves said: "Specialists told us that girls they are raped because they do not have pantiesgirls do not wear panties because they are poor. "

In her statements, the Minister referred to the high rate of badual abuse of minors in the Islands of the Tapajós Archipelagoin the Amazon state of Pará, one of the regions with the highest percentage of indigenous population in Brazil.

The declaration of the portfolio holder of the family, women and human rights was made during the presentation in Brasilia of the program "Abrace a Tapajos"which includes a series of initiatives aimed at reducing badual violence.

"We will attack crime by raising public awareness and stimulating installation of factories and companies that sell these clothes (calzones)The official said She also stated that it was common for girls in the area to be delivered in exchange for food or even fuel for the supply of boats.

However, this is not the first time that Alves is in the eye of the storm because of his comments. After Bolsonaro's victory in Brazil, the pastor spoke of the beginning of a "new era in which the boy is wearing blue and the girl is pink"Meanwhile, in recent weeks, he said that the woman "must be subjected to the man in marriage".