Albertina Berkenbrock (11 April 1919 – 15 June 1931) was a Brazilian Catholic girl killed "in defensum castitatis" in 1931 after she resisted her attacker's rape attempts.
[1] Berkenbrock was of German descent both sides and she worked on her farm while also teaching fellow children catechism and attending Mass on a frequent basis.
[4] Albertina Berkenbrock was born in Imaruí in Brazil on 11 April 1919 to the devout farmers Johann Hermann and Elisabeth Schmöller as one of nine children.
[1][5] Berkenbrock tried to fight back but her attacker realized that he would fail and she would point him out so grasped her hair and slit her throat with a knife.
He tried to cover up his crime but was soon arrested after people suspected him; each time Maneco was taken near the girl's corpse the blood from her neck gushed as a sign he was the culprit.