An expert on the deceased model’s family in Playa del Carmen believes there was sexual abuse and she was beaten

The medical examiner, Jose Miceli, former chief of the scientific police of Carmen de Patagones, analyzed the autopsy carried out on the body of Agostina Jalabert, the advertising model who was found dead in Carmen Beach, Mexico. He did so at the request of the victim’s family.

In communication with lawyer Betina Touli, who is handling the case in Mexico, Miceli gave his opinion on the autopsy and, in the first place, questioned why the experts did not assess the evolution time of the lesions.

The expert spoke about the “punch in the mouth and head trauma (although in the photos they would be consistent with the perimortem) which could have been produced with the aim of making the victim disappear in order to manipulate it and, finally, place it in the position where it was found.”

“It’s hard because I have never seen a person commit suicide by hanging while having a support on the ground and, if the versions are true, it was 1.20 meters,” he said.

Miceli also spoke about the cigarette burns he visualized on Agostina’s skin, describing them as a “clear fact of torture.” He noted that lesion samples were not sent for pathological study and suggested a witness statement to flesh out the report.

Furthermore, he deduced that the lesions compatible with recent sexual intercourse, noted by the doctor who performed the autopsy in Mexico, showed that it was non-consensual. This was based on a “schematic lesion of the inner surface of the upper third of the thigh, an area considered secondary sexual, which shows denial of the sexual act by the victim, a fact obtained by the violence exerted by the author.”

Miceli also indicated that “parts of the neck compromised by draperies, such as the sternocleidomastoid muscles, the lateral vascular bundles of the neck, and the trachea, were not sent to pathology, or at least it is not informed, since the pressure exerted on them could be determined. I also do not see that the organs (spleen, liver, lung, brain) were sent for histopathological and biochemical study.”

The Argentine coroner believes that the decision to cremate the body removed the possibility of obtaining this data. These studies could have “provided data on toxicity and hemoglobin saturation, as well as the presence or absence of ecchymotic spots, which are signs of asphyxia.”

Finally, it appears from the autopsy report, and as the coroner specifies, “the injuries which he describes as recent”. He completed: “Although I do not determine approximate data, I would place them in everything that happened during this night until death.”

Agostina was 31 years old, an advertising model, and based in Mexico. On February 18, her sister, Candela, found her dead in the bathroom of the department in Carmen Beach, a town in the state of Quintana Roo, where she lived with her boyfriend. For the family, Agostina was murdered. Indeed, the victim’s father, Edgardo Jalabert, said in recent days that the results of the autopsy “confirm femicide.”

Candela had traveled to Mexico to spend the holidays with Agostina. She left her sister’s property on February 17, around 5:00 p.m. The next morning, when she returned, she found the door closed.

“It was something very strange. It was an apartment with a code. She entered the code, but the door did not open. I was stuck. She went downstairs to tell the security guard and he said that there were riots at night. She tried to enter again, and after a few minutes, Agostina’s partner opened the door from the inside and what is known happened,” said Agostina’s father, who is the director of Pedro Hospital in Ecay, Carmen de Patagones.

Agostina’s father said that in the summer of 2021, his daughter and her boyfriend had “a big fight” while living in Viedma. “We had to intervene and bring our daughter with us. There had been no physical violence, and they had not had contact since then. I didn’t harass her,” he recalled.

The couple had been separated for some time until he resumed the relationship at the end of last year. In the meantime, several projects they had planned came to an end, and the young woman left to live in Mexico, where she began her career as a model and also became an influencer. “In the fall, she traveled with one of her sisters to Europe and came to Patagones, and then returned to Playa del Carmen with her dog. In December, this subject appeared again,” Edgardo reviewed, noting that his family took the resumption of the relationship with “worry.”

Now, from Agostina’s environment, they indicate who the boyfriend of the young model was.