Judge Eden Enrique Aguilar Castroof the Third Specialized Court for Violence against Women, rejected the lawyer’s resignation harry valley, who acted as “defender” of the priest, but an hour after the hearing decided to drop the case. However, the judge, a follower of Daniel Ortega, gave the relatives three days to look for another defender.
The lawyer Yader Morazán published through his Twitter account that the lawyer alleged through a letter that the father’s relatives did not have to pay his fees “for a defense he did not exercise.”
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“Do you think you are owed something for this defense fraud exercised by private attorney Harry Valle or is he the one who should pay for the crime of unfaithful sponsorship and damages caused to the kidnapped father?” the lawyer questioned.
In interview with Article 66Morazán said that the dictatorship “sold false illusions” to the relatives of Monsignor Urbina, making them believe that they were going to free him. “But the surprise that we all get, and surely the father too, is when the lawyer comes to play a more exalting role than the prosecutor himself,” he reiterated.
“What is striking is that this young man only did evil because minutes later he was submitting his resignation and says in his letter that the family did not have to pay his fees,” he stressed.
Judgment for August 24
It was learned, according to Morazán, that a private lawyer named Jennifer Eliett Hernandez Granera He requested the intervention of the law to defend Father Leonel Urbina, so the replacement of lawyer Harry Valle is expected soon.
For August 24th, at nine in the morning, the trial against the priest is scheduled. The court warned that “rescheduling will not be accepted to avoid re-victimization.”
It should be noted —according to Morazán— that in the first resolution issued by Aguilar Castro, he omits to substantiate the reasons why he will hear and resolve a case involving events that occurred outside the territory he is responsible for hearing. “That is to say, he does not justify why being in Managua, he will know facts about Boaco.”
Accusation against Monsignor Urbina
The accusation presented by the Ortega prosecutor Emmanuel Alvarez against Monsignor Urbina Rodríguez mentions that «in 2016 he met the lady (with initials TC), who is the paternal grandmother of the victim with initials MJVS, and due to the degree of trust between the accused priest and the girl’s grandmother, he took advantage of said circumstance to get closer to the victim and gain her trust to such an extent that the girl recognized him as her godfather».
It details that in December 2021, the priest asked the woman for permission to go with the 12-year-old victim to buy tortillas, so in a van he moved “together with the girl victim and another young man they went to the tortilla shop located in front of to a convenience store in the Alcides Miranda neighborhood, in Boaco».
Upon arriving at the tortilla shop, the priest told the young man to get out of the truck to buy the tortillas and then return on foot, while the priest left in the vehicle together with the girl victim, who told him to move to the seat front passenger, and then the priest Urbina drove the vehicle in the direction of kilometer 89 Boaco-Managua Highway, in a little traveled and hilly area and on the riverbank, where he parked the truck and touched the girl on the breasts , kissed her neck and told the girl to have sexual relations, to which the victim refused, “adds the complaint.
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The prosecutor mentioned that in April 2022, the priest again asked the minor’s grandmother for authorization to go buy tortillas, and in the van he carried out the vaginal rape. He added that the priest threatened to kill the minor if she told about the alleged abuse of her.
Monsignor Urbina has been detained since July 13, being the subject of a judicial process, which according to Catholic leaders and opponents, is a “setup” by the Nicaraguan government in order to continue with its attack on the Catholic Church of Nicaragua, since The government propaganda media have exhibited relatives of the minor in a case that must be treated with discretion.
With this new arrest, there are already two religious that the Nicaraguan dictatorship charges with common crimes; The first was Father Manuel Salvador García, a parish priest in Nandaime, convicted of exposing people to danger and for allegedly assaulting a woman.
