Ana Paula Kitterhing De Sousa has been missed deeply by her daughter and family since she was murdered roughly two-and-a-half years ago.
“She was the light of my life, my best friend,” Raquel Margulies, the 57-year-old Toronto woman’s daughter, told CTV News Toronto on Wednesday.
“(My mother) was magical. She was really, really magical and I miss her every single day.”
Margulies said her mom died after sustaining 26 stab wounds the night of Oct. 15, 2023. She was found at a home in Toronto’s west end and pronounced dead.
Michael Calvo, then 46, of Toronto, was subsequently charged with second-degree murder in Kitterhing De Sousa’s death. He was the woman’s on-and-off partner.
The woman’s daughter told CTV News Toronto that Calvo’s downstairs neighbour told her she heard her mother’s screams “as he was battering her around the shelves of the kitchen.”
Accused not criminally responsible
Six months ago, however, on Oct. 27, 2025, Calvo was found not criminally responsible on account of a “mental disorder,” according to the Ontario Review Board (ORB).
David Margulies, Kitterhing De Sousa’s stepson, went to the pre-trial.
“I did get the feeling that the defence was going to be trying for an NCR (Not Criminally Responsible), but I never got the impression that the crown would just roll over,” he told CTV News Toronto.
The victim’s stepson said he heard testimony from two psychiatrists who were treating Calvo before the incident, and almost right up to it, who said he had major depressive disorder.
“Two years after the fact, around September 2025, (the psychiatrist) had a two-hour interview with him and determined that he has schizoaffective disorder and was suffering from psychosis at the time,” he told CTV News Toronto.
Victim’s stepson ‘flabberghasted’ by NCR
Margulies says he was “flabbergasted” by the NCR, but says they were told it meant Calvo would be “locked away in a psychiatric facility.”
“We asked what’s the likelihood of him coming out and they go, ‘Oh no, I mean not for years and years.’,” he said.
Following a hearing that took place at the Centre for Addition and Mental Health on April 16, the victim’s family found out the ORB has determined the person in charge may used their discretion to permit the accused to among other things, “...enter the community of the Greater Toronto Area, indirectly supervised.”
The disposition goes on to say that the person in charge must “notify the local police at such times as they exercise their discretion to permit the accused to enter the community.”
‘So absurd that it’s almost inexplicable’
The family is outraged that Calvo is being granted this level of freedom.
“Worst case scenario, it’s a case of him having gamed the system - when we’re looking at a murderer who has fooled people into releasing him into the community,” said David Margulies.
“Or let’s take his case at face value, and the system’s case that it is a man, according to his lead psychiatrists who right now, as we sit here, still believe the delusions (Calvo) had that night, which is he stabbed her in self-defense one time and then while he left Mossad or CIA agents or some type of secret agents came in and stabbed her another 25 times to death. Their position is, ‘But that’s the only delusion he has so now he’s good to get into the community.’ It’s a position so absurd that it’s almost inexplicable.”
In a statement to CTV News Toronto, Gavin MacKenzie, general counsel with the Ontario Review Board, said in part:
“The Ontario Review Board (the “Board”) does not comment publicly on matters under its jurisdiction beyond what is set out in its formal dispositions and written reasons.”
But added in general that, “The accused must adhere to an approved itinerary and may also be subject to intermittent direct observation by hospital staff. At all times, the clinical team is aware of the accused’s intended whereabouts.”
Harry Margulies, Kitterhing De Sousa’s former partner and father of her daughter, Raquel, said his “take is everybody who makes a decision about his freedom should at least feel as if they were liable and make the decision in that respect.”
The woman’s family say they feel the system is broken, adding they’re left feeling stuck, remembering a vibrant, spirited woman, and no one has taken responsibility for her death.
“What did the review board say? Well we left it to the doctors, the doctors will say, the decision will not be made immediately,” the ex-spouse said.
“They’re still hiding behind this beautiful language with only one intent, to hide the truth. The truth is, he may be out on his own and how can he be trusted?”
The victim’s daughter Raquel Margulies says she “really hope(s) that wherever (her mother) is, that she knows that people are fighting for her and that her voice and her story really do matter.”
The Ontario Review Board’s reasons for the disposition are expected to be released in mid-May.
