2023-08-17 23:00:00
valentina cancels She was 17 years old and was found lifeless half buried at stop 6 of Playa Brava, Punta del Este, Uruguay. She had a relationship with Santino for a long time, who had been her boyfriend until the episodes of violence began, although they continued to meet on occasion. After more than 24 hours of searching, the young man, the same age, confessed to the crime and is in custody.
According to the first autopsy data, as reported by the spokesman for the prosecution in charge of the case, the young woman’s death was due to suffocation. The prosecutor Jorge Vaz charged the minor with Valentina’s femicide, and ordered his admission to the National Institute for Adolescent Social Inclusion (Inisa) until the sentence is handed down.
The prosecutor now has 30 days to present the accusation and ask for a sentence that, being a teenager, could not exceed 10 years.
Femicide in Punta del Este: the ex-boyfriend of the disappeared teenager confessed to the crime
Mistreatment and assaults: a relationship with repeated episodes of violence
Santino and Valentina were schoolmates. They began to meet and were dating until February of this year, when the first complaint of physical abuse was registered.
From the young woman’s family environment they informed The Observer than the teenager “he was always verbally abusive” to the girl, and both classmates and teachers from the school of both “They had already warned about episodes of violence” among them.
Despite this, they continued to see each other secretly and in a recent meeting, he had hit her, for which the parents filed a complaint against the young man again last July.
Valentina cancels.
Liliana SarmoriaValentina’s mother, said that she even spoke with the father of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend and from Justice the adults responsible for both were summoned to comply with the duties of parental authority.
However, the warnings and complaints were not enough: in a new meeting, this time he killed her.
The last hours of Valentina Cancela: meeting with her ex-boyfriend and desperate search
On Tuesday, August 15, Valentina’s mother reported that the teenager had not returned from her English classes. She was last seen in images from the city’s security cameras at 3:30 p.m. in the company of her ex-partner. It was seen that both entered Playa Brava in Punta del Este, but he later left alone.
From there began a desperate search. Isa, a friend of Valentina, wrote to Santino on WhatsApp the same day he disappeared from her to ask if he was with her. The captures went viral because the young man not only denies knowing where he is, but also responds with a photo raising his thumb barely an hour after the time the crime is believed to have occurred.
“My mom called me because Santino doesn’t answer,” he writes. “Stop that I write to you. You don’t answer her either? ”, He answers. “Santino doesn’t answer his mother,” adds the girl.
Then, he asks if there is any news: “Did you already answer?” The friend insists on asking him if he is with her minutes later. “No. I’m at home with my old man,” he says with a photo in which he appears serious with a thumbs up.
“The mother went looking for her. We don’t know where she is,” insists the girl. “Let’s go find her” he proposes. In other messages, he adds: “I think I was the last person to see her. I saw her today around 1, but then she stopped answering her messages.”
The chat of one of Valentia’s friends with the ex-boyfriend, hours after the crime.
“At one point I felt a very strong oppression in my chest, a mother’s intuition, and I said ‘something is wrong,'” Valentina Cancela’s mother told the press. “Unfortunately, they began a relationship, like all adolescent girls, with all your desire to meet someone. In the first instance, he shows himself to be a gallant person, not so much with words because he was always very hermetic, but with details, like an alfajor or something. Until later time passed and that was changing and turned into a violent relationship”, he recounted.
On Wednesday morning, hours after not having news of the girl, the Maldonado Prefecture found a backpack that was confirmed to be Valentina’s, 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. Her body was found at 6:20 p.m. in an area near the place where her things were.
The area of Playa Brava where the body of Valentina Cancela was found.
The two occasions in which Justice intervened for violence in the bond of adolescents
According to information from The Observer, There is a first event that occurred in the early hours of February 15 of this year, in which a police officer saw “a young woman assaulting a teenager” on 31st Street and Gorlero Avenue. physically assaulting a male, grabbing him by the hair and hitting him with his fist”, says the police report published by the Uruguayan outlet.
In that occasion, “The minors were referred to different medical centers to verify injuries” and the parents were notified “to comply with the duties inherent to parental authority. Keep in police orbit”.
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On a second occasion, a presentation is made on July 1, 2023 for an event that happened on June 29 at noon. She is the mother of Valentina who appears at the Maldonado 1 police station to denounce Santino for physical and verbal attacks against her daughter.
“Sarmoria states that on Thursday she was not at home and her daughter met with the person investigated and after discussions between them he would have physically and verbally assaulted her”holds the information.
In this case, the episode was referred to the subrogating judge of the 2nd shift of the court specialized in gender, domestic, and sexual violence of San Carlos and “minors were ordered to have a good relationship” and “all parents to strictly comply with the duties inherent to parental authority”.
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