Global Courant 2023-05-20 11:15:45
A 49-year-old man was sentenced this Friday to life imprisonment after a popular jury found him guilty of the femicide of his partner, who was stabbed to death in front of their 4-year-old son, in a house in Paraná, Entre Ríos, because I wanted to end the relationship.
The 12 jurors found Carlos Deniz responsible for the crime of “homicide doubly aggravated by the relationship and by a context of gender violence (femicide)”, to the detriment of Stella Maris Castaño, for which the technical judge Elvio Garzón imposed the maximum penalty. and established that he continue to be detained until the ruling is final.
The crime occurred around 3 in the morning on December 20, 2021, on the property located at 1351 Díaz Vélez street in the capital of Entre Ríos, where the victim lived with the femicide and their 4-year-old son.
According to the investigation, the argument began after she reminded him that she wanted to separate. He then gagged her with duct tape around her mouth, neck, and nape.
Stella Maris Castaño, murdered by her partner, Carlos Deniz.
A young man who was walking down the street with his girlfriend heard cries for help, jumped over the gate, took a large iron and broke the glass to enter. Deniz ordered him to leave, took the woman by the muscled one and introduced her into the house by force, he locked the door, took her to the kitchen and, in front of his son, took a knife with a wooden handle and stabbed him twice in the heart.
After seven calls to 911, police personnel attended the scene and found the victim on the kitchen floor and Deniz climbing an internal staircase to the roof of the house, which she later blocked with a pipe.
The woman was immediately transferred to the San Martín de Paraná hospital, where she died hours later as a result of the injuries suffered in the second lumbar vertebra, according to the autopsy.
Stella Maris Castaño, murdered by her partner, Carlos Deniz.
Meanwhile, staff of the 4th police station. He accessed the roof from the outside and found the man hiding, injuring himself and attempting suicide, for which he had to receive medical attention.
An announced end: constant jealousy, threats and forced relationships
Prosecutors Melisa Saint Paul and Ileana Viviani recalled that the couple had been in a relationship for about 8 years, but that the separation was planned.
“He put limits on her work life and friendships, he made scenes of constant jealousy, he threatened to take the child on a motorcycle along the road if Stella went out to a party, he forced her to have relationships,” explained one of the judicial officers. in the plea.
In this context, they maintained that Deniz “killed her because she could no longer control her, she tried to exercise an act of law, of freedom.”
Carlos Deniz received life imprisonment for the femicide of his partner, Stella Maris Castaño.
Although the Justice and the Police confirmed to Télam that there was “no history of gender violence, neither in police stations nor in prosecutors”, the evidence collected shows that the woman was the victim of different types of violence.
At least since July 2021, Castaño sent messages to his family, friends and relatives where he reported that he was seeking to separate, as a result of the “context of gender violence and control over his life” that Deniz exercised.
During the trial, more than 30 witnesses and experts testified, one of whom stated that Deniz confessed to him “that he killed her out of jealousy,” and the psychologists who treated him confirmed that “he never had an act of regret or concern,” the lawyer added. complainant, Pedro Fontanetto.
The suffering of the son: he has nightmares, he wakes up crying and vomits
The 4-year-old son was kept by the victim’s grandmother, and with the support of professionals from the Provincial Council for Children, Adolescents and the Family (Copnaf).
Laura Mendoza López, from the Pupil Ministry, represented the child and remarked that he was “an indirect victim of the incident and will have problems in his relationships, emotions, and cognitive development.”
“He has nightmares at night: he wakes up crying and then vomits, he has dreams of fires and he wakes up crying because he couldn’t save those people in the dream,” she said.
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