If you think you're having a bad day, spare a thought for the former Brazilian CS:GO pro player, Shayene "shAy" Victorio. The player has been charged with fraud over an online store she ran for four years from 2013 and has been served to a 116 year prison sentence. Oof.
Apparently, a good number of people who purchased goods from her online store during that time didn't receive the items they paid for. At least 118 of these reported the store to the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo (MPSP) and it's as a direct result of this that the sentence was determined.
While 116 years does seem a little extreme in proportion to the crime, Victorio has not actually been arrested and is not being held in custody. Basically, Brazil's laws will allow her to appeal the sentence and, as she claims that she ran the store with her ex-husband and he is to blame for the missing items, she seems confident that she won't serve any time at all.
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Victorio has been playing CS:GO professionally since 2008 but retired from the game last year so she could concentrate on streaming and being 'an influencer.' In fact, she took to her Instagram (thanks AFK Gaming) to state that her ex had taken full responsibility for the crimes and that "I work with my image, I do live broadcasts daily, I am known in my field, I have a physical address. It does not fit in with what is being judged out there."
She has also taken the more formal route of releasing a statement to a Brazilian news site via her lawyer which states, "It was a problem of business administration and that after a questionable search and seizure, the company was unable to deliver products to a few consumers, we use few here as the company had more than 10,000 sales and deliveries."
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According to AFK Gaming, the statement also mentions that Victorio has recently become a target on the internet "with people creating fake pages to attack her, simply for the purpose of gossip and malevolence." and goes on to say that her and her lawyers will appeal "against the sentence that we consider inhumane, awaiting a new decision."
Brazilian law also states that no one person can serve more than 30 years in prison, regardless of the sentence or the crime so even if her appeals do fail - which honestly seems fairly unlikely at this point - she would only (only!) be imprisoned for a maximum of 30 years.
Featured Image Credit: Shay Victorio / Valve