A Pichincha Criminal Guarantees Court sentenced a 37-year-old citizen responsible for raping a woman to twenty-nine years and four months in prison. In addition, the payment of $5,000 has been ordered for the full reparation of the victim.
The event occurred on October 9, 2021, in the Bellavista neighborhood, in San Miguel de los Bancos. The woman would have been threatened with a knife to leave her home and be taken to the aggressor’s house, where she was locked up.
“Two days later, the woman, who had edema in her left eye, managed to escape and notify the police,” according to the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE).
Finding the whereabouts of the victimizer, the citizen undertook a race to escape from the agents. When he was cornered he would have threatened a police officer with a machete. Finally, he managed to be arrested and placed under the orders of the authority.
The prosecutor Fanny Onofre was in charge of the investigation and presented documentary, testimonial and expert evidence, such as the testimony of the victim, in which she admitted having maintained a one-month romantic relationship with her aggressor, the same one that ended three years before the attack. done.
The forensic medical examination was also presented in which it was stated that, after the physical examination, the victim presented several contusive traumatic injuries to the head, neck and arms.
Finally, the expert who carried out the examination of the social environment concluded that the victim presented vulnerability factors, added to the reconnaissance reports of the place where the events occurred.
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According to the Prosecutor’s Office, the citizen was accused of the crime of rape, the same as established in article 171, first paragraph, number 2 of the Organic Comprehensive Criminal Code (COIP), which holds a prison sentence of 19 to 22 years.
However, it was explained that the magistrates ruled the increase of a third of the sentence for aggravating circumstances established in article 48, numeral 9. This occurs when the aggressor knew the victim prior to the infraction. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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