In the first three months of the year, 16 femicides have been registered, 14 occurred in Nicaraguan territory, one in Panama and one in Costa Rica, according to statistics from the Violence Observatory of the Catholic organization for the Right to Decide (CDD).
The femicide has also left 17 children and adolescents orphaned. The main aggressors were the ex-partners with seven crimes, four were unknown, two by the couples, two unknown and one death by her boyfriend.
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The departments of the country where femicides have been reported are: Caribe Norte 4, Caribe Sur 3, Matagalpa 2, Managua 1, Estelí 1, Nueva Segovia 1, León 1, Rivas 1. March was the most violent month for women with eight deaths, February with six and January with two.
The most recent case of femicide was a 16-year-old girl who died at the hands of her 23-year-old partner, identified as Jerry Vanegas. The tragic event took place on Monday, April 4, in the Mayoreo market sector in Managua, where the victim rented a room with her boyfriend.
According to local media, the teenager was in her room with other young people drinking liquor, Vanegas arrived and asked the other classmates to leave the place. Minutes later the girl was killed.
The 23-year-old was not at the scene. A newborn girl is left an orphan. With these femicides there would be 17 murdered women.
Young women, the main victimss of femicide
Young women, between 18 and 35 years old, was the age group that presented the most victims with seven femicides, followed by women between 36 and 59 years old with six; Two victims between the ages of 13 and 17 and one crime involving a woman over 60 years of age were reported.
Of the total of 16 femicides, only nine were classified as such. According to the police authorities, two were murders, two homicides and three as theft or omission of assistance.
Of the 14 femicides that occurred in Nicaragua, only eight perpetrators have been prosecuted, six face criminal proceedings, 1 femicide was sentenced, and another is under investigation.
Although Nicaragua has Law 779, Comprehensive Law against violence against women, femicides have not decreased since its approval. Feminist groups protested when reforms were made to the legal instrument that reduced crime to the private sphere.
