A couple is the main suspect in the murder of the 7 and 10-year-old sisters, whose bodies were found tied and wrapped in a mattress in a vacant lot in Ciudad Belén. The executors of the minors lived in front of the house of their victims and are currently detained along with a third suspect.
According to information released by official media, the woman helped her partner to rape the older girl and then kill her and proceed to do the same with the younger one for being a “witness to what happened.” To consummate the crime, the couple tied up both girls and then kept the little bodies in a corner of one of the rooms of the house and then went out on Sunday to throw the corpses wrapped in a mattress to a large property that is located one block of houses.
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The father of the victims is an active soldier of the Nicaraguan Army Air Force, as confirmed this afternoon by the deputy president of the Rosario Murillo regime. While the investigations continue, the bodies of the girls were handed over by forensic experts from the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) to their relatives who left for the community of Walakitang, Río Coco, jurisdiction of Wiwilí-Jinotega, where they will arrive until noon this 10 September to carry out the funerals of the minors.
In her story, the woman stated that “the stench of the bodies made them throw them on the hilly property with the intention that the birds of prey would devour them.” The uncle of the victims affirms that his family had only lived in Managua for three months since they are originally from Wiwilí, Jinotega.
«They are neighbors, they lived there in front of this house. What we demand is justice, the girls are innocent. We don’t have problems with anyone, we are Christians and we are humble too,” an uncle of the victims told official media.
«Here no closer there was a vigil. As the girls were friends of a neighbor, since they used to play with her, she lent the girls to the youngest because she already had confidence here in the house and lent them to her. But the hours passed and she realized that the girls had not returned, “said another of her relatives.
“The girls had never had contact with these three people who are being investigated. The attitude that the girl who came to lend to the minors took was insistent. The police investigated and do not want to say where he left them », she assured.
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Catholics for the Right to Decide reported this September 6 that at least 45 women, including three girls, have been murdered in Nicaragua so far in 2022. The organization’s coordinator, Martha Flores, said that “this year there have been more femicides against girls and adolescents. We request that these cases not go unpunished, because impunity is giving a message to aggressors, femicides and rapists that they continue to carry out their misdeeds against the lives of women and that nothing happens.
“We are going to continue demanding justice for all those girls whose lives were cut short because these girls had their dreams and today their mothers are left telling what these girls’ dreams were. It is to continue denouncing and that there are strategies that are educational in order to reduce these cruel murders, “added the women’s defender.
