SANTO DOMINGO.- The judge of the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services of the National District, Rigoberto Sena, imposed three months of preventive detention as a measure of coercion against José Ramón Montero, identified as the alleged perpetrator of the death of Rosmery Sosa Rodríguez.
Judge Sena imposed the measure after accepting the request from the Public Ministry. Montero must comply with coercion at the Najayo Hombres Correction and Rehabilitation Center.
Upon leaving the courtroom, José Ramón Montero denied the accusations against him and assured that he did not infer the attacks that caused the death of Rosmery Sosa.
“I turned myself in to clarify this. She killed herself, she inflicted that stab on herself and that’s why I turned myself in to clarify the situation. Her family knows it,” he said when questioned by journalists.
However, he stated that both arrived together at his residence where the incident occurred.
“She came home with me, but the family knows who she was; the family knows who I am and they know that I’m not a problem. She fought with me but I didn’t,” he said.
For their part, the victim’s relatives rejected Montero’s statements and stated that they will continue fighting for justice in their relative’s case.
Rosmery Sosa Rodríguez, 29, was killed early Friday morning in her residence located in the Gualey sector, National District, with multiple stab wounds with a knife.
He left three children, ages 11, 8 and 5, orphaned.
According to preliminary investigations, the incident occurred in the residence that both shared, when after an argument occurred between the two, Montero attacked Sosa Rodríguez with a knife.
As part of the investigative work carried out by agents of the National Police assigned to the Department of Crimes and Crimes Against Persons (Homicides), a knife was recovered at the scene of the crime, which was incorporated as evidence in the process.
Hours after the incident, the accused voluntarily surrendered at the National Police Palace, where he was placed under arrest.
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