A preventive detention order was what Carlos Fernando E., an Ecuadorian citizen who appears as the possible person responsible for the femicide of the digital media journalist, received this Thursday morning. Johanna Guayguacundo, 28 years old. The measure, which will last 30 days of fiscal investigation, was arranged by Judge Janeth Chauvin, of the Unit of Violence Against Women and Flagrant Infractions of Quito.
The detainee, also 28 years old, would have been a partner of the murdered girl. At the hearing, the prosecutor in the case presented as an element of conviction the recording of a security camera that captured the alleged aggressor leaving on board a motorcycle the place where The victim’s body was found and removed by Police Criminalistics agents on February 2 last. The crime would have been committed a day earlier.
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The day the crime occurred, a neighbor would have seen Johanna with her partner at the corner of a store in the Calderón sector, north of the capital. The witness would have observed, according to the Prosecutor’s Office, how both argued strongly and the defendant today hit the woman while holding her against the wall. When the witness left the store, the couple would no longer have been there.
To these elements of conviction would have been added the record of removal of the body, the medical-legal autopsy report that determines that the woman’s death was violent, the complaint filed by the victim’s brother, among others.
Judge Chauvin also accepted the protection measures proposed by prosecutor Rolando Gualoto in favor of the next of kin of the victim: prohibition of the accused person from carrying out acts of persecution or intimidation of the victim or members of the family nucleus and the extension of a ticket for help. In addition, the judge ordered that psychological treatment be provided to the sister and mother of the murdered young woman.
Investigations reveal that the woman’s body was found with signs of suffocation due to strangulation and neck injuries.
The State Attorney General’s Office reported that its Follow-up Team for Cases of Gender Violence of the Human Rights Directorate has been activated and currently provides support the victim’s family with psychological first aid, support and emotional containment.
The Prosecutor’s Office also announced that the Directorate of Legal Control and Evaluation of Prosecutor’s action, because the victim would have reported psychological violence in 2018. What would be sought is to verify the fiscal actions that would have taken place in this case. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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