The Public Ministry requests 30 years in prison for Keren Patricia Coca Aguilar, accused of aggravated murder against her uncle David Antonio Castro Sánchez, whom she accused of having raped her when she was a teenager.
The event occurred on January 4, at night. The Public Ministry assured that Coca Aguilar had killed her uncle with a stab wound to the neck, when the elderly man was in her room. The woman told officers that her uncle had sexually abused her as a teenager and that he tried to exact revenge at her own hands.
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The defense lawyer requested that the minimum penalty be applied in the case of aggravated murder, which would correspond to 25 years in prison. The prosecution showed as part of the evidence the opinion of the forensic psychologist that the defendant had lied at the time of being evaluated.
According to the coroner, the woman also contradicted herself by saying that her uncle had injured her with a knife, but the physical examination found no injury and there was no knife at the crime scene, according to reports from the police officers who investigated. the case.
Given the event that alarmed the population, María Teresa Blandón, feminist, sociologist and director of the women’s human rights organization La Corriente, believes that the woman was able to take justice into her own hands given the lack of reparation on the part of the Nicaraguan State.
“There are other types of situations that have occurred in Nicaragua, such as that of this young woman who murdered the uncle who abused her when she was a child. In these cases, we are talking about other situations that lead the victims to act in this way, also motivated by a need for reparation that unfortunately does not come from the State”, points out the Nicaraguan activist.
Between January and March 2023, 16 of the 26 femicides were committed in the national territory and 10 were perpetrated abroad: five in Costa Rica, three in the United States, one in Mexico and another in Guatemala, countries where entire families have emigrated. for the repression of the dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo.
