The Mirabal Sisters Province Prosecutor’s Office requested a year of preventive detention as a measure of coercion against the accused of spraying with the chemical substance called devil’s acid to Yanelis Arias López, who died several days after the event that occurred on August 20, in the Tenares municipality.
The request was deposited with the General Secretariat of the Mirabal Sisters Investigating Court against the named Agustín De Jesús Pimentel Luna (Cache), who is investigated by the Public Ministry.
According to a press release, the prosecutor Claudia Cecilia Román, from the Unit for Comprehensive Attention to Gender Violence, Intrafamily and Sexual Crimes in this demarcation, deposited the elements of evidence that will allow the judge to impose the measure of coercion against the accused .
The file presented by the Public Ministry reports that Pimentel Luna arrived at the residence of Arias López, located on Emilio Rodríguez street, under the pretext of delivering a bouquet of flowers to the victim.
In that sense, he narrates that when the woman came out to the front of the house, when her executioner passed her the flowers, she took the opportunity to spray the corrosive substance on her, which caused burns in more than one 70% of the body surface.
According to the autopsy of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (Inacif), Arias López died as a result of septic shock from sepsis due to the infected burns on his body, on September 3, after receiving medical attention for 14 days in the Burn Unit of the Dr. Ney Arias Lora Hospital, in the city of Santo Domingo.
The Mirabal Sisters Prosecutor’s Office reported that Pimentel Luna is being investigated for raping Articles 265, 266, 303, numeral 4, ordinal 10, of the Dominican Penal Code, modified by Law 24-97, on Gender and Intrafamily Violence, which typifies the association of criminals, as well as torture or an act of barbarism.
Judge Yudelka de León set for next Monday, November 15, starting at 1:00 in the afternoon, the knowledge of the request for a measure of coercion, presented by the Public Ministry.
