Judge Róger Sánchez, of the First Specialized Court for Children and Violence in Managua, found the 17-year-old adolescent with the initials AESR guilty for the murder of the seven- and 10-year-old sisters in Ciudad Belén, perpetrated last September 2022.
The Prosecutor’s Office requested six years in prison for the defendant, the maximum penalty for adolescents who commit this crime, as established in the Code for Children and Adolescents.
The Nicaraguan justice accused the adolescent of the crimes of attempted rape and aggravated murder to the detriment of the girls murdered in Ciudad Belén.
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For their part, the young people Alfredo Lara Ortiz, 19, and Alison Salgado Rugama, 18, Lara’s life partner and the teenager’s sister, who also participated in the double homicide that shocked the country, are awaiting their jail sentence.
Last December, Judge Aleyda María Irías Mairena, head of the Second Specialized Court for Violence, found Lara and Salgado guilty of the double murder of the two girls.
After the guilty verdict of the other two co-perpetrators of the double crime, the Prosecutor’s Office requested life imprisonment for Lara, in addition to 20 years in prison for the crime of attempted rape, and for her spouse requested 100 years in prison, 60 years in prison for aggravated murder and 40 more for the crime of attempted rape.
The crime against the two sisters occurred on September 2, at night, in Ciudad Belén, in District VI of Managua. The defendants lived five houses from where the victims resided. About 30 people were witnesses at the trial.
The facts
Police investigations detail that the exam postmortem determined that the seven-year-old girl with the initials IJU was murdered by mechanical asphyxia (suffocation), and her 10-year-old sister MJU, by severe head trauma caused by a blunt object and has green ecchymosis in the pubic region.
The lifeless bodies of the girls were found in a vacant lot in Ciudad Belén on Monday, September 5. At the site, a multicolored fabric mattress, strips of white fabric, a piece of white duplex wire, and samples of body fluids were collected as evidence. The witnesses report that the three alleged criminals washed the house in the morning of the day after the disappearance of the minors.
The crime was committed in the home of the alleged femicides, where a criminal investigation was carried out that revealed the presence of human blood in the living room and in the adolescent’s bedroom. A piece of block and a piece of blue towel used to commit the crime were also found in the bedroom, indicated the police part.
The victims had three months of having arrived in the capital. The family, of the Miskito ethnic group, is originally from the Walakitang community of Río Coco, in Wiwilí, department of Jinotega, and came to Managua in search of work.
