April 8, 2023, 4:12 PM
April 8, 2023, 4:12 PM
Three of the seven members of the criminal gang that robbed and sexually abused women in the Mirador de La Guardia, They were placed before a precautionary judge for the second time, and sent preventively to the Palmasola prison, accused of the crime of aggravated rape.
The attorney for the Defender of the municipality of La Guardia, Ana Isabel Rojas, indicated to EL DEBER that the three were denounced for the rape of three young women. The defendants were transferred to the judge’s courtroom Rodrigo Vedia, that determined the deprivation of liberty in the Palmasola prison.
“The hearing was held three people involved in the crime of aggravated rapean event that arose in March, where three young women were victims,” explained the lawyer.
Thes women, between 18 and 23 years oldwho had gone to the Mirador, were reduced by the three subjects who carried firearms, intimidated them, raped them and stripped them of their belongings.
subjects they fled in a vehicle after committing sexual abuse; and the victims reported the incident to the La Guardia authorities.
The rapists had been wanted since the end of March After the victims sued them, in addition, other complaints for aggravated robbery were filed against the subjects, but they finally fell after a police officer was killed with a gunshot to the head. Police discovered that the gang was made up of at least seven people.
After the capture of the seven antisocials, three rape victims recognized the subjects, especially by his physical characteristics, tattoos and by voice.
In principle, these subjects were brought before Judge Rodrigo Vedia of La Guardia, charged with the crime of complicity in murder, for the death of Sergeant Oliver Mendoza. The judge determined that they be deprived of liberty for a period of 180 days; However, the situation of these subjects worsened because the Public Ministry added other crimes, as aggravated rape, after rape victims identified them when they were introduced to the media.
The hearing was face-to-face. Before Judge Vedia the defendants they claimed to be innocent of the crime of rape; however, the evidence presented against him was compelling.
“Those involved in the incident are fully identified by their victims, women who, regardless of the danger they were exposing themselves to, went for a walk at the Mirador at 11:00 p.m. on March 21, that’s when Chayán Yépez Paniagua and the brothers Carlos Aurelio and Wilfredo Pérez Manrique commit rape and aggravated robbery,” explained the lawyer.
The prosecutor assigned to the case, Karla Barrónindicated that the three defendants must serve 180 days of preventive detention in the Palmasola prison, while the investigations against them are carried out.
Barrón pointed out that the victims identified the three individuals who attacked her, but among them Ovidio Robles is not herethe ringleader of the gang, who has two sentences against him: one for murder and another for aggravated rape, acts also committed in the Mirador.
