“We hope that Justice does not leave a single loophole for impunity for this fact.” This is what the First Lady of the Republic, Raquel Arbaje, declared after the Attorney General’s Office issued the reasons for the death of the adolescent Esmeralda Richiez.
Arbaje, who is also president of the Cabinet for Children and Adolescents, regretted the death of Richiez due to hypovolemic shock, according to the report by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif).
“The event has deeply moved Dominican society, which is horrified by the circumstances in which Esmeralda lost her life. There is not and there will never be any justification for the alleged perpetrator of her, nor a sentence that makes the social and family loss that this death means less painful »said Arbaje in a statement published on his social networks.
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He Public ministry deposited this Thursday, before the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of this judicial district, the request for a measure of coercion against a teacher and his cousin for the death of a 16-year-old adolescent (Esmeralda Richiez), in the community Good viewsof the municipal district the other bandin the Higüey municipality.
In this sense, the Prosecutor’s Office requested 12 months of preventive detention against the professor john kelly martinezwho is charged as the main suspect in the death of the teenager with the initials ERM.
The justice body also requested the imposition of a periodic presentation against Rubiel Morrillo Martínez, the defendant’s cousin, for his complicity in the act.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office has given the provisional legal classification to the acts committed by the defendant as rape and association of criminals to commit a crime, provided for in articles 265, 266 and 331 of the Dominican Penal Code.
According to the analyzes carried out by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (inacif) the adolescent was subjected to violent sexual activity, which caused bleeding, which triggered hypovolemic shock.
