The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeals of Las Segovias, based in Estelí, ratified the sentence against the femicide Justo Pastor Ortiz, 17, who last April was sentenced to 6 years in prison for murdering his girlfriend with several stab wounds Britney Olivas Herrera, 17, who, according to the opinion, was pregnant.
The adolescent’s defense attorney, Edgard Aráuz Blandón, had requested that his prison sentence be reduced so that he could “continue with his university studies.” The requested reduction in sentence was four years and that three of those years he would serve under assisted release (probation).
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Through the resolution issued by the Court, they ratify that the sentence will be served on March 13, 2028, in addition, during his stay in the prison, the adolescent must join social work, as indicated in the first instance sentence. The femicide is originally from Estelí and was in her first year of civil engineering when she committed the crime.
Last April, the defendant admitted before Judge María Elsa Laguna Herrera, head of the Estelí adolescent district criminal court, having ended the life of the young woman. The court ordered psychotherapeutic treatment for the adolescent, prevention measures, consolidation of her character, anger control, self-control, group and family therapies aimed at avoiding a relapse into “serious depression.”
The Nicaraguan Childhood and Adolescence Code prevented the adolescent’s perpetrator, Britney Olivas Herrera, from being prosecuted for committing a hate crime and sentenced to life imprisonment, as he explained to Article 66 the lawyer Yonarqui Martinez.
«For a minor there is a special procedure that stipulates the treatment that must be given to the accused. He also has an estimated time in the sentence, in case of serious crimes, it cannot exceed six years, “said Martínez in reference to article 202 of the Code for Children and Adolescents.
Human rights organizations have denounced the high level of violence against women, especially on the North and South Caribbean Coast. “We are facing a situation where the Government is not assuming its responsibility for this situation of violence against women,” they lament.
