The Collegiate Court of the Criminal Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the Judicial District of San Pedro de Macorís sentenced to 10 years in prison a Austrian for domestic violence aggravated against her ex-partner in 2017.
Hofer Gernot was found guilty of the crime of domestic violence aggravated, because it is accompanied by a threat of death.
Prosecutor Pedro Adael García de Peña, from the Department of Final Litigation, provided the evidence that showed that on June 21, 2017, Gernot went to the house of his ex-partner in the municipality of Consuelo and threatened to kill her. death as he pressured her to come back to him.
In a subsequent event, on October 24 of the same year at a transport stop, two men who accompanied Gernot and who remain at large dismounted from the vehicle that the foreigner was driving and beat the woman.
The lady suffered abrasions on both her arm and her left leg, according to the legal medical certificate issued by the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif).
The aggressor must serve the sentence in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center of San Pedro de Macorís.
