Nicaragua rejects sexist crime committed by an alleged rapist released

Managua Nicaragua.

He killing a young woman caused outrage this Sunday in Nicaragua after National Police confirm that the suspect had a history of rape, after which it was known that he was released in 2020 due to a resolution of President Daniel Ortega.

Katring López was killed and then thrown into a pit at dawn on the 10th in Jalapa, the border with Hondurashours after celebrating 21 years and talking in a neighboring house with several new acquaintances, including A hard tackle from Bryam Jordán to Flores Chávezconfirmed their relatives.

In a press release, Nicaraguan police reported that “search officers located and captured the subject identified with the initials BJFCh, 21 years old, as the main suspect, who has a history of rape.

Immediate, Jalapa settlers who criticized the police for revealing the identity of the victim, but not the suspect, shared the name with a photo of the man, in which he is seen lifting the presidential resolution granting him freedom in February 2020.

“Condemnable and cowardly murder of the young woman Katring Ninell Lopez. The murderer was pardoned by the dictatorship. None the less! “Opposition leader Juan Sebastián Chamorro posted on the social network Twitter.

Dates from Judicial file Flores indicate that he would have enjoyed freedom even if he had not benefited from Ortega, as his two-and-a-half-year prison sentence was served in February 2020.

“A dog that eats eggs, even if it burns its snout, does not give up its tricks,” said the victim’s mother. Zenayda Martinez, to Radio Corporación.

Sexist violence

According to non-governmental Catholics for the right to decide, by 2020 at least 71 women have been victims of gender-based violence. Various sources have reported at least three femicides by 2021, including López’s.

He Government of Nicaragua, which has reopened police stations for women amid allegations of increasing female insecurity, does not usually publish reports on the number of women killed by men.

In 2020, at least 7,924 detainees with final sentences were benefited by Ortega, with orders similar to those of Flores, according to official data.

Feminist organizations have urged Ortega to refrain from releasing “common criminals“, Since some of them came out to attack or take the lives of the women who denounced them.

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