2024-04-17 22:16:14
Uruguayan Justice sentenced to 27 years and 6 months in prison to Leonardo David Sena for the femicide of Lola Chomnalez, the Argentine teenager who was murdered in December 2014 when she was on the Barra de Valizas beach.
He was also convicted Ángel Eduardo Moreira Martínezalias “Cachila”, who received a sentence of 8 years in prison for the crime of “cover-up”. He had originally been acquitted in the first instance by Judge Giménez Vera, but the Court of Appeals revoked that ruling last February.
Sena He already had a criminal record for other acts and He was arrested in May 2022 in Chuy, on the border of Uruguay with Brazil, after different witnesses They pointed out that it was common to see it in the area where the victim’s remains were found.
The key evidence for your arrest It came with the DNA comparison, which tested positive for his blood, found at the crime scene.
In court, Sena declared that he was innocent and that he had cut himself with a glass bottle while working, shortly before going to drink mates on the beach, where he said he found Lola’s backpack and her belongings.
Investigators, however, found that Sena’s DNA was not only present in the crime scene records, but it was also “mixed” with that of the young Argentine.
The femicide of Lola Chomnalez was sentenced: the judge’s arguments
When reviewing the arguments for the conviction, Judge Juan Giménez Vera considered the level of “dangerousness” of the accusedhis background (a previous conviction for injuries and another for rape) and having buried the victim’s body after having killed her.
Rocha inspector, Mariela Núñez, had asked that the maximum sentence be imposed on Senaalthough the magistrate assessed that not all of the aggravating factors for this were met.
Thus, the femicide, who next May will serve two years in prison, He was found guilty of the crime of “very especially aggravated homicide” and he will serve a sentence from which the time spent in preventive detention will be deducted.
Femicide of Lola Chomnalez: the case
The teenager had arrived in the small Uruguayan town on Saturday, December 27, 2014 to stay at her godmother’s house. The next day, He disappeared when he had gone out for a walk along the beach area. Two days later, she was found murdered in a dune sectorfour kilometers from the house where he was staying.
The autopsy revealed that He died from asphyxiation due to suffocation and had several cuts made with a knife in different parts of his body.
With these indications, the prosecution understood that the young woman tried to run away from her murderers, she was caught, wounded with a knife and hit on the head to finally die of asphyxiation when, in response to her probable requests for help, they pressed her face against the sand.
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