Diego Chomnalez, the father of Lola, the Argentine teenager murdered in December 2014 in Valizas, expressed his indignation after learning that Ángel “El Cachila” Moreira was sentenced to eight years in prison for concealment, after an Appeals Court reversed his acquittal.
“It ain’t no relief since the criminal is simply put in jail for 8 years. AND my daughter was violently murdered“, said Lola’s father in an interview with the Argentine media IP Noticias.
“They put him in prison for eight years simply (…)How are they going to imprison a murderer for 8 years?? I wonder if all these magistrates and law enforcement workers, if they murder a daughter, are going to put him in prison for eight years. It seems to me a shame, absurd, a spit in the face to me and my wifehe continued.
And he added that it is a “shame” for the entire Uruguay. “They are insulting us in the face. All of them, all of the magistrates… it’s an institutional shame.”
For her part, Lola’s mother, Adriana Belmonte, indicated that she had been waiting since July last year for the sentence for El Cachila, since at that time the prosecutor Jessica Pereira appealed the decision of Judge Juan Giménez de Rocha.
“We received it as a good news. Not with the same euphoria with which we received the arrest of (Leonardo) Senathat in his blood match he gave 99%, but we do celebrate that the court accompanies us in this, which is something that we have been saying since 2015. That Cachila is at the scene of the crime: before, during and after, “said Belmonte.
However, Chomnalez insisted that his daughter’s crime is still unsolved. “What happened to Lola is that three murderers caught her, of whom we have two in jail. One of whom is benefiting from 8 years in prison. Let’s see what happens with the murderer himself and if we find the third”, he pointed out and considered the prison sentence for El Cachila “a prize”.
Asked about the “delay” of the Uruguayan Justice, Lola’s mother replied: “The times of Justice are not those of the family, or those that the mother or father would want.” And about the sentence to El Cachila: “I understand the 8 years because Lola’s case falls under the old code. A crime against private property was more punishable than a crime.”
The latter generated the response of Lola’s father: “Look what a nice joke that is. You steal private property and the penalty is more than the murder of a girl.”
