Caleb Rocha Tercero, 23, who took the life of Karen Montserrat Blandón with a shot, was sentenced to life imprisonment this Wednesday, September 21, in the Second District Court for Adolescent and Violence Criminal Matters in Managua.
Rocha murdered the young manicurist on July 6, when she was breastfeeding her six-month-old baby in her home located in the Carlos Fonseca neighborhood of Managua’s Fifth District. According to the Public Ministry, the man, after committing the crime, fled to Honduras, where he was captured and handed over to the Nicaraguan authorities.
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The sentence of the femicide was in charge of Judge Miroslava Calero, who ordered him to serve the sentence in La Modelo prison, in Tipitapa. During the trial, the femicide’s lawyer appealed the conviction and the process will go to the Specialized Chamber for Violence and Criminal Justice for Adolescents of the Managua Court of Appeals (TAM).
The tragedy that left a six-month-old girl an orphan happened around nine in the morning. Witnesses assure that the young woman had just returned to her house and was breastfeeding her daughter when she was attacked by her ex-partner. Blandón, who joins the growing list of victims of femicide, was a manicurist and specialized in doing acrylic nail work.
After the crime, Rocha had fled in an unknown direction alerting border police posts, the international airport and bus terminals; learning later that he had left Nicaragua through a point not authorized for Honduras where he was captured and handed over to be sentenced.
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The mother of the femicide recently requested that Rocha be transferred to the Granada prison for fear that in “La Modelo” the other inmates would attempt against her life, but now she must serve her sentence in said prison system.
For his part, Róger Zamora, husband of Karen Blandón’s mother, said at that time to Article 66 disagree with the request made by the sentenced person’s mother, “because the crime was committed in Managua and it is here that he must pay, not elsewhere.” “In La Modelo he must pay for his crime,” said Zamora, who stated that the loss of Blandón is a “hard blow” that they have not overcome.
«From that blow one does not recover easily, Karen’s girl cries every night. All that damage that Rocha Tercero caused did not look at him at the time of killing the woman, now they are the consequences that he must pay for what he did, “he added.
