This Wednesday, February 2, the preparatory hearing for the trial against José Luis VV, suspected of raping a minor for seven years who would be his sister-in-law, was installed in the North Florida Judicial Complex.
The man is also suspected of having his mother-in-law killed when she found out about the abuse and reported it. In addition, it is presumed that he would be related to other threats against the family.
The violation was reported on October 27, 2020 and the fiscal investigation began on October 5, 2021.
Wednesday’s hearing was for the rape case. There, the victim’s family hoped that preventive detention would finally be issued against the suspect, but it was not.
Judge Sara Martillo set up the hearing and ordered the prosecution to be reopened and given ten more days to be able to process a request from the suspect’s defense to have an extension of the version of other sisters of the rape victim, who now has almost 17 years.
Last October, José Luis VV received precautionary measures from Judge Martillo, despite prosecutor Margarita Neira’s prison request.
Marcos Dioses, one of the victim’s lawyers, explained that the suspect has not approached the prosecutor’s office to sign, as had been ordered by the judge, because last October he presented a medical certificate in which he assured that he was infected with COVID 19 and that he had to be isolated.
According to the lawyer Dioses, this certificate is false. Dioses even presented the free and voluntary version given to the Prosecutor’s Office by the doctor whose signature was allegedly forged, as well as the certificate from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) in which it is determined that the suspect does not appear in the list of cases. positives.
Dioses does not know if the suspect is in the country and says that he is not currently wanted by the Police.
The relatives of the victims with signs asked for speed in the case outside the court and demand justice for the family, since there is not only an assaulted minor, but also a murdered mother.
The fatal victim is Esmeraldas Bolaños, who was shot last year in downtown Guayaquil. She was selling lottery tickets in Plaza Rocafuerte when two men arrived on a motorcycle and shot her in the head.
According to police investigations, the assassins had been hired to threaten the woman so that she would leave the criminal process and supposedly they got too far.
The lawyer Dioses assured that when the minor told her mother that her brother-in-law had raped her for years, she claimed her son-in-law. Shortly after, this man allegedly kidnapped the teenager, drugged her and took her to an apartment in the center of Guayaquil, where, according to her lawyer, four men raped her.
The sister of the victim and partner of the alleged rapist is also prosecuted by the Prosecutor’s Office, because, according to the minor’s version, she knew about the attacks and told her that she had to discount the food and that she caused the abuse.
That is what the lawyer Dioses assures, who explains that the girl for years was left in the care of her older sister and her partner while the mother worked selling lottery. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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