The National Police presented to the citizens Claudio Benjamin Martinez Y Jose Esteban Morales Martinezalleged femicides of the merchant Esther Damaris Martinez Alaniz34 years old, murdered in the Cuitanga Sur region, Chichigalpa, Chinandega municipality.
The main suspects in the crime were shown to official media on Friday, January 6, one day after the discovery of the lifeless body of the young woman.
According to media, claudioalleged relative of the victim, had been harassing Esther for years, but when the young woman refused, he plotted to rape the girl with the help of his friend Jose Stephenaka “The Monkey”.
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On the day of the crime, the subjects watched Esther and, around five in the morning on Thursday, when the merchant was going to work, the alleged femicides intercepted her in a sugarcane field in the sector known as La Bomba, Santa Fe, in the municipality from Chichigalpa.
At the scene, they intimidated her with a knife and put her into some bushes where they suffocated her with a rope. The men could not rape the woman because they heard residents walking through the sector, so they fled.
According to official media, Senior Commissioner Douglas Juárez, chief of the Chinandega Police, said this Friday that Claudio MartinezHe has a record for theft.
Martínez Alaniz leaves two children, 10 and 8 years old, orphaned. According to feminist organizations, she would be the first victim of femicide in 2023.
The observatory of the feminist organization Católicas por el Derecho a Decidir recorded 67 murders against women Nicaraguans at the end of the year.
