The four-year-old daughter of the Virginia mom murdered in a twisted rape fantasy plot allegedly orchestrated by her philandering husband and their sultry Brazilian au pair requested the mistress nanny hours after the killing if she was going to marry her father.
The younger woman posed the startling query to the naughty nanny — 25-year-old Juliana Peres Magalhães — quickly after her mother, Christine Banfield, was discovered useless of their Northern Virginia dwelling, a police sufferer advocate who witnessed the odd alternate testified Thursday, the Washington Publish reported.
“Are you going to marry my daddy,” the motherless teen requested Magalhães.
The advocate stated the au pair then replied, “I want.”
The witness defined the eyebrow-raising interplay was the primary signal she believed Christine’s IRS agent husband, Brendan Banfield, was hiding one thing, the outlet reported.
The chilling new particulars emerged as Brendan, 40, stands trial, accused of stabbing his 37-year-old spouse to demise and fatally taking pictures a would-be patsy contained in the couple’s Herndon dwelling on Feb. 24, 2023.
He was cuffed in September 2024 and charged with staging a rape try and “get rid” of his spouse and run off with their daughter’s much-younger live-in nanny, with whom he had been having a lusty affair.
Brendan and Magalhães allegedly lured a supposed attacker — 38-year-old Joseph Ryan — to their dwelling by posing as Christine on a fetish web site, the place they pretended she was on the lookout for somebody to stay out a violent rape fantasy with, prosecutors alleged in his explosive homicide trial final week.
Ryan then snuck into the house with a knife whereas the husband was allegedly mendacity in wait along with his IRS-issued handgun.
Brendan and the au pair intentionally burst into the bed room in the course of the orchestrated assault and fatally shot Ryan within the head, then allegedly used his blade to stab Christine within the neck and face till she died, Magalhães testified after placing a plea deal.
The illicit pair made it seem the husband had heroically tried to save lots of his spouse’s life, prosecutors alleged.
Brendan allegedly determined to homicide Christine simply two months after he started sleeping with Magalhães, then 21, as a result of he didn’t wish to pay for a divorce and thought she was a “horrible” mom who “wasn’t good” for his or her younger daughter.
Magalhães moved into the house together with her alleged killer lover — hanging her lingerie in Christine’s closet and sleeping every evening within the very mattress the place the mom had been murdered.
The illicit nanny was arrested in October 2023 and charged with homicide. She pleaded responsible to manslaughter the next yr — a month after Brendan was arrested.
She might be sentenced after Brendan’s anticipated weeks-long trial, throughout which his protection argued she was solely arrested to “flip her” towards her ex-flame.
Banfield, who not works for the IRS, faces life in jail if convicted.
