Shocking question 4-year-old daughter of fetishist accused of killing wife asked her nanny and dads mistress hours after murder
The four-year-old daughter of the Virginia mother murdered in a twisted rape fantasy plot allegedly orchestrated by her philandering husband and their sultry Brazilian au pair asked the mistress nanny hours after the killing if she was going to marry her father.The young girl posed the startling question to the naughty nanny — 25-year-old Juliana Peres Magalhães — soon after her mom, Christine Banfield, was found dead in their Northern Virginia home, a police victim advocate who witnessed the odd exchange testified Thursday, the Washington Post reported.“Are you going to marry my daddy,” the motherless youngster asked Magalhães.The advocate said the au pair then replied, “I wish.”The witness explained the eyebrow-raising interaction was the first sign she believed Christine’s IRS agent husband, Brendan Banfield, was hiding something, the outlet reported.The chilling new details emerged as Brendan, 40, stands trial, accused of stabbing his 37-year-old wife to death and fatally shooting a would-be patsy inside the couple’s Herndon home on Feb.
24, 2023.He was cuffed in September 2024 and charged with staging a rape attempt to “get rid” of his wife 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 home by posing as Christine on a fetish website, where they pretended she was looking for someone to live out a violent rape fantasy with, prosecutors alleged in his explosive murder trial last week.Ryan then snuck into the home with a knife while the husband was allegedly lying in wait with his IRS-issued handgun.Brendan and the au pair deliberately burst into the bedroom in the middle of the orchestrated assault and fatally shot Ryan in the head, then allegedly used his blade to stab Christine in the neck and face until she died, Magalhães testified after striking a plea deal.The illicit pair ma...