This weekend the murders of two women, aged 21 and 17, who were missing in their respective municipalities, were reported. She is a young mother from waspam and a teenage communicator who was found dead in Esteli.
On the morning of Saturday, March 12, the lifeless body of Marling Martinez Fenly, 21 years old, on the banks of a river, in Waspam, North Caribbean. The victim had been missing since Wednesday, March 9, after leaving her house in the Klisnak community in the direction of Waspuk Ta, Li Aubra indigenous territory, reported the Prilaka Community Foundation organization.
The organization of the indigenous peoples of the Caribbean indicated that, according to testimonies, Martinez She did not return to her home, so her relatives presumed that the young woman had stayed at a relative’s house in a nearby community, but they were alerted when they saw that two days later she still had not returned.
The tragedy was confirmed this weekend when his body was found on the banks of the Coco River above, located between the Klisnak and Naranjal communities. The family deduces that, from the state of her body, the young woman was killed several days ago, apparently by strangulation. marlin martinez leaves a four-year-old child as an orphan.
hours later, in Estelireported the murder of Britney Olivas Herreraaged 17, who collaborated as an announcer on Radio Estéreo Libre and the “Tuktan Sirpi” Children’s Association.
National media report that the teenager had disappeared since March 10 when she left her house in the Róger Hanguien neighborhood, in Jinotega, heading to Estelí to find out about university careers. Olivas was found on the night of Saturday, March 12, in a hollow in the La Quinta community.
“We are always justifying violence and we always blame the victim and the victim is not to blame. You can go where you want and not because of that, another person has the right to take your life,” said a journalist from Radio Estéreo Libre.
“This (radio) family is shattered. Britney was so talented. The whole of Nicaragua is asking for justice. How can you tell your son to leave the house if there is no security for the women?” another colleague questioned.
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The victim’s mother, Alicia Herrera, published that “unfortunately they will not be able to see her little face for the last time because those murderers disfigured her face.”
“My girl told me one day that if she died young, or before me, to buy her a white coffin so that the people who loved her, family and friends, would write how much we love her and that’s how it will be, her coffin is white,” he wrote. on your Facebook profile.
The Femicide Observatory of the Catholic organization for the Right to Decide records eight crimes against women Nicaraguans from January 1 to March 8.
The organization details that six femicides were ex-partners of the victims. Women in rural areas continue to be the most unprotected. As of that date, six femicides were registered on the Caribbean Coast, one in Rivas and one abroad.
The observatory warned that, in addition, as of March 8, 38 frustrated femicides had already been reported. The organization fears that the figure will increase due to the lack of protection and compliance with the laws and legal instruments for the prevention, punishment and eradication of gender violence.
