[Child Death] 12 Year Old Killed with Hack Saw

TRULY SAD.


Daniel Philip Petry was born in 1991 in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

From childhood he was a rebellious, aggressive boy who often reacted with unusual violence at the slightest provocation. He was under psychiatric treatment, but often missed or left his therapy sessions early. His only refuge became the television and then the Internet. An argument between Petry and Kuhn began as they were playing "Tibia (Spanish)"; Petry was convinced that the younger Kuhn was cheating in the game.

Furious, Petry went to Kuhn's house. Gabriel's parents were not there, his brother was out and Kuhn was alone.

Petry entered the house through an open door, found Kuhn and started beating him. Gabriel Kuhn tried to defend himself, but wasn't a match for the older Petry. Petry then took Kuhn to a bedroom and either raped or sodomized him. Gabriel screamed and cried, but that only made Petry was more cruel. The bed sheets were stained with Gabriel's blood.

Once the beating and sexual assault seemed over, Gabriel Kuhn threatened to report Perty to his parents.

Frantic, Petry decided to kill Kuhn. He used a cable and wrapped it around Gabriel's neck- pulling it tight until Gabriel passed out. Then Daniel had another idea. He went to the garage of the house, found a hacksaw and returned to Kuhn's body...and began to cut. Gabriel regained consciousness as Daniel was cutting into his leg and began to scream in pain. Petry kept cutting. He severed the left leg.

Gabriel stopped screaming, probably because he passed out from shock due to massive blood loss. Petry continued to sever the leg and then moved on to dismember Gabriel's right leg.

The autopsy would show that Gabriel was alive when both his legs were sawn off.

Petry first tried to hide the body in a trap door (attic) of the house. Daniel wrapped cable and wire around Gabriel's body in order to try and hoist it into the attic, but to no avail: Gabriel was too heavy.

Daniel then fled the house. Gabriel's brother arrived shortly after and found the remains of his brother, lying by the door. Horrified, he ran back out into the street, yelling. Another neighbor saw him and called police.

Daniel Petry was tried in court and after his conviction was sent to a young/juvenile offenders facility. He was sentenced to three years in prison for murder.