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Model Stomped Lover Before Killing and Castrating Him, Say Court Papers

By DNAinfo Staff on January 14, 2011 1:30pm  | Updated on January 15, 2011 10:28am

Model Renato Seabra, was arraigned Friday on murder charges after the death and castration of Carlos Castro.
Model Renato Seabra, was arraigned Friday on murder charges after the death and castration of Carlos Castro.
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By Shayna Jacobs

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — A Portuguese model accused of castrating and killing his lover in a Times Square hotel stomped on his victim's face so hard detectives found his shoe impressions, court papers released Friday claim.

Renato Seabra also admitted to smashing gay rights activist Carlos Castro's head into a TV, putting the 65-year-old into a choke hold and stabbing him with a cork screw, the criminal complaint said.

Castro had a fractured neck bone, showed evidence of being strangled and beaten and had had his testicles severed from his body, the documents say.

Seabra, 21, was arraigned on murder charges Friday via video from the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital Center.

He has been held there for psychiatric surveillance since Jan. 10, when he was arrested for allegedly attacking Castro in their room at the Intercontinental Hotel in Times Square. Police found him at Roosevelt Hospital, where he reportedly sought medical care after slitting his wrists.

In the video transmission broadcast into a Manhattan courtroom Friday, the sullen-looking Seabra wore light blue hospital scrubs, and his tanned, boyish face was covered in a scruffy goatee.

He stared down at the ground with a slack expression and said nothing during the arraignment, which comes on the heels of a grand jury's vote to indict Seabra in the incident, prosecutors said. The exact indictment charges will remain sealed until his supreme court arraignment next month.

Castro's mutilated naked body was found in the Intercontinental Hotel where one of his friends had reportedly alerted staff after getting a troubling phone call from Castro.

Seabra and Castro had reportedly been dating since October, although Seabra had vehemently denied being gay to police, allegedly saying he mutilated Castro to "rid him of his homosexuality," according to reports.

The pair was vacationing in New York together and had checked in to the InterContinental hotel on West 44th Street when the older man reportedly began to fear his young companion.

In a phone call, Castro apparently told a friend, Monica Pires, that Seabra was "acting crazy."

"It is a very serious and violent crime," Assistant District Attorney Maxine Rosenthal told Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Anthony Ferrara.

The judge ordered Seabra to be held without bail Friday, and it is unclear whether he will be kept at Bellevue Hospital Center. He is due back in court Feb. 1.