2023-08-17 06:51:00
valentina cancelsthe 17-year-old teenager who had disappeared in Uruguay, she was murdered by her ex-boyfriendwho confessed to the crime and led the police to the body half buried on the beach. The minor had already received three complaints for gender violence by the young woman and also had a restraining order.
“We just found Valentina’s body,” said the prosecutor in the case this Wednesday, one day after his mother denounced that the teenager had not returned from her English classes. She had been seen by the city’s security cameras for the last time at 3:30 p.m. this Tuesday, in the company of her ex-partner, also 17 years oldwith whom he entered the Brava Beach in Punta del Estefrom which he later emerged alone.
On Wednesday morning, the Maldonado Prefecture I had found the backpack of Valentina, after deploying an operation with drones and dogs. One of the aerial images detected an area with raised sand and, when digging, they found the teenager’s belongings. The body was found at 6:20 p.m. in a nearby area. where was the backpack
As reported by the local news TelemundoValentina Cancela’s ex-boyfriend and schoolmate was questioned by the Uruguayan Prosecutor’s Office and, in principle, assured that he had talked about hours with her and that he had left the place alone. Hours later, the young man confessed to the responsibility of the crime.
Jorge Vazthe prosecutor in the case, indicated that he will request the imputation of the perpetrator of the crime, once all the elements of the investigation have been assembled. According to what was reported by the newspaper The ObserverVaz explained that even though he is a minor, “it is chargeable as a delinquent adolescent”, something that can lead to a “sanction deprivation of liberty”.
However, the Maldonado police chief said at a press conference that “we can’t even talk to him because he’s a minor.”
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“At one point I felt a very strong oppression in my chest, a mother’s intuition, and I said ‘something is wrong,'” he told the press. Liliana Sarmoria, Valentina Cancela’s mother, about the afternoon her daughter did not come home. She knew that her daughter’s ex-partner was violent and therefore they had denounced it.
“Unfortunately, they started a relationship, like every teenage girl, with all their desire to meet someone. In the first instance, he appears as a gallant person —not so much with words because he was always very hermetic— but with details, from an alfajor or something. Until later time passed and that was changing and turned into a violent relationship“said the mother of the teenager.
Sources from the young woman’s family informed The Observer that the two minors “went back and forth”, until they They ended their relationship in February, when they denounced him for physical abuse. The family added that the adolescent “always verbally assaulted” the victim and both classmates and teachers at the school of both “had already noticed episodes of violence” between them.
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Los parents of the young femicide were intimidated to comply with the duties of parental authority and even Liliana Sarmoria spoke with the father of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend. “I told him ‘I am going to denounce your son, this cannot happen, it is not something healthy for both of us,'” she recounted.
However, Valentina’s relatives reported that despite the separation in February, the teenagers continued to see each other “in secret” until a month ago. They reported that in the last meeting he hit herso they decided to file a new complaint.
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