June 25, 2023, 9:00 PM
June 25, 2023, 9:00 PM
Diego Wilmer Chávez Martínez, 24 years old, was sentenced this Sunday to 30 years in prison without the right to pardon for having slit the throat, on June 21, of a 23-year-old mother and her two-year-old daughter, in a house in the city of La Paz.
The femicide and infanticide was sentenced in an abbreviated procedure and now He must serve his sentence in the maximum security prison of Chonchocoroaccording to a decision taken by the Second Court of Instruction and Violence Against Women.
The departmental prosecutor of La Paz, William Alave, reported that Chávez Martínez, during his precautionary measures hearing, requested to avail himself of the abbreviated procedure after having accepted being the author of the death of Samantha NC and her little daughter.
The girl “was not the daughter of the defendant,” Alave recalled. Chávez Martínez, after murdering his victims in a small room he rented in La Paz, fled to Los Yungas and was captured on Saturday in Taypiplaya.
For his part, the prosecutor for Crimes Against Life, Edwin Sarmiento, indicated that according to the version of the victims’ family, the young mother went with her daughter one night before the crime to the home of the now convicted subject.
In the past few days, the sister of the femicide victim She said that Chávez Martínez was the young woman’s ex-partner and that he constantly harassed her, calling her on the phone.
On Saturday, two other acts of femicide were learned in the department of La Paz, one in Palos Blancos and another in the city that is the seat of government.
In the case of white sticksthe victim was identified as Eliana SP, 25 years oldand who died from multiple blows and stab wounds.
The suspect in this crime is Germán CQ, 29 years old, who would have been the victim’s partner. He is now apprehended.
In the city of La Paz, the victim was identified as Katherin Libertad PM, 18 years old..
the vMinistry of Internal Affairs and PoliceJohnny Aguilera, reported that his body “was buried on a surface covered by a promontory of earth, in a kind of tunnel.”
By this fact it is apprehended Gregorio PC, 27 years old, who allegedly had a sentimental relationship with his victim.
Likewise, it was preliminary reported that a possible new case of femicide in Cochabamba is being investigated.
Also, this Sunday night a woman was found lifeless and naked inside a Plan 3000 accommodation in Santa Cruz.
Saturday, the general commander of the Bolivian PoliceÁlvaro Álvarez, informed that, from January to June 24, 43 complaints were filed of this type before the Special Force to Combat Violence, of which 40 cases have been clarified.
