On the night of February 6, the subject identified as Marvin Rodwell Terry McCoy murdered his ex-stepdaughter Katry Deshany Putchie Hodgson, 22, with a firearm, who became the fourth woman murdered so far in 2023 in Nicaragua.
The crime that occurred in the 19 de Julio neighborhood of the municipality of Laguna de Perlas, in the Autonomous Region of the South Caribbean Coast, occurred when the ex-stepfather came to the house where the young woman lived with her mother, ex-spouse of Terry McCoy, the subject in In the midst of an argument, he shot several times, mortally wounding Deshany.
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According to official information, Gertrudes Hortencia Hodgson Wilson, the victim’s mother, has a reserved prognosis at the hospital in the city of Bluefields in the country’s Caribbean, as a result of the gunshot wounds.
The couple divorced a few months ago, but the subject was dissatisfied with the sentence, since his purpose was to keep some lodgings that his ex-partner owns. In his last appeal filed in court, the offender requested that he be granted the navigation license that the woman owns under her ownership.
After Terry McCoy committed the act, he fled the scene, so the offender is currently being circulated by the Police to answer for the crimes of murder and frustrated femicide.
A report from the Observatory of Catholics for the Right to Decide (CDD) details that in 2022 68 women were murdered in Nicaragua. Most of the femicides occurred on the North Caribbean Coast.
The report indicates that 17 women were murdered in that area, 11 of them on the North Caribbean Coast and another six on the South Caribbean Coast. The sociologist María Teresa Blandón also criticizes that society continues to normalize violence and that women continue to suffer.
Blandón also complains to the government for the lack of action in the face of a multi-causal problem that claims the lives of women, mainly in rural areas of the country. «We find it completely offensive and irresponsible on the part of the regime, that the only thing it offers is the publication of poorly made primers, which do not even have clear concepts to be able to understand what the causes of violence are and that it evades ruling on any responsibility of the regime. state,” he said.
