The Nicaraguan Justice declared guilty this Tuesday Óscar Leonardo Hernández, who on August 21 murdered the 47-year-old citizen Elisa Lisbeth Montano Franco with several machetes, while exercising in the streets of the Los Farallones residential complex, in the department of Chinandega.
The subject was found guilty of the crimes of aggravated murder, robbery with violence and obstruction of functions. The Prosecutor’s Office is asking for life imprisonment for aggravated murder, seven years for the crime of robbery and five years for obstruction of functions, according to information revealed by official media.
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Hernández murdered the citizen with ten blows of a machete after trying to steal her belongings. The woman had two daughters and she had recently returned to Nicaragua from the United States to buy a house in that residential area.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, when the subject reached Elisa to try to commit the crime, he hit her with a machete on the left side of the face, and when she tried to escape, the man followed her and unloaded eight more machete blows on her face. , neck and head. In a last attempt to save himself from her, the victim put his hands to defend himself from her, and received at least two more thrusts in each one of them, dying shortly after.
The judge of the Second Criminal District Court of Chinandega, Juan González Quintana, was the one who gave the guilty verdict. The court announced that the sentence will be read on November 14.
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More than 40 femicides
So far this year, more than 40 women have been murdered, according to data from the Observatory of Catholics for the Right to Decide. In addition, more than 100 frustrated femicides are registered.
However, 15 femicides remain unpunished in Nicaragua, three go unpunished abroad, 12 perpetrators are being prosecuted by the Nicaraguan judicial authorities and two by the authorities of the country where they committed the crime. In addition, only three are under investigation, while the judicial process was canceled for the same number of perpetrators.
