2008-05-06 23:56:59 -

SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) - A prosecutor on Tuesday said he has asked a judge to indict the father and stepmother of a 5-year-old girl allegedly thrown from a sixth-floor apartment last March.
Sao Paulo state prosecutor Francisco Cembranelli told a news conference that he wants 29-year-old Alexandre Nardoni and his 24-year-old wife Anna Carolina

Jatoba to be indicted on homicide charges in the death of Isabella de Oliveira Nardoni.
The indictment request was filed with Judge Mauricio Fossen, who must now decide if evidence gathered by police and presented by the prosecutor is enough to formally charge the couple.
Cembranelli also asked the judge to order the preventive detention of Nardoni and Jatoba, who have been staying with family members. They face charges carrying potential prison sentences of up to 30 years, the maximum permitted by Brazilian law.
Cembranelli said that Jatoba, in an apparent fit of anger on March 29, struck the young Isabella in the head with a blunt object inside the family's car and then proceeded to strangle her.

To cover up his wife's act, Nardoni then carried his daughter into the building and threw her from his apartment while she was still alive, the prosecutor said.
Nardoni has told police that an intruder killed his daughter, saying he left her on her bed while he went downstairs to the parking lot to help his wife and other two children. He said he locked the apartment, but that she was gone when he returned.
Isabella's death has been front-page news in Brazil for more than a month.