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Slain Journalist's Ashes Poured Down Subway Grate
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Jaya Saxena
Published Jan 16, 2011
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As per his wishes, the ashes of Carlos Castro—the Portuguese journalist who was beaten, castrated and tortured allegedly by Renato Seabra—were poured into the subway grate at W. 44th St. and Broadway yesterday after his funeral in Newark. His sisters say they received permission from the city to leave his ashes in Times Square, and the Post reports they poured them down the grate without a word. Friend Claudio Montez told the Daily News, "I feel like I'm dead with him. He was like a brother."
Seabra was arraigned on murder charges yesterday and faces 25 years to life in prison for the crime, which he allegedly confessed to to police while in custody at Bellevue Hospital. Reverend Joao Antao said during the Newark service, "Let's not talk about the circumstances of his death because we all die."
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