A man who dismembered his girlfriend and threw the remains of a pram has been sentenced to life

After the trial for the crime of marasca horacelia, the judge of hostels sentenced to life imprisonment Martin Fernando Monzonwho in 2015 killed and dismembered his girlfriend, then a minor.

In the early hours of August 16, 2015, Monzón had a heated argument with his 16-year-old partner Marasca. Neighbors of the couple said there had suddenly been a deep silence and later investigators verified that was when the femicide happened.

The young woman first suffered three blows, including one to the face and which caused her to lose three teeth. He was then stabbed three times with a butcher knife. One of them reached a depth of 14 centimeters so that it punctured his lung and his heart. After the murder, Monzón dismembered the body and distributed it to different neighborhoods in the city.

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Shortly after the trial began, judges César Yaya, Gregorio Busse, and Fernando Verón determined that Monzón was guilty of the “qualified homicide by nexus and treason” of Horacelia Génesis Marasca. In his allegations, the representative of the parquetVladimir Glinka said the sentence is due to the aggravating factor for the connection and betrayal.

For his part, the detainee’s defense, Miguel Ángel Varela, made three statements and assured that the detainee defended himself because his partner attacked him with a knife. As such, the positions were: that of self-defence, that of excessive self-defence and that of mitigation or minimum punishment.

Despite defense attempts, court sources confirmed the 39-year-old was given a life sentence for the femicide of his teenage girlfriend, who he dismembered into five parts, placed the remains in trash bags and transported in a stroller through different areas of the city of Posadas. Also, it was found that the crime happened in front of the baby they had.

During one of the hearings, doctors confirmed that the autopsy revealed that the victim had blows to the face and three puncture wounds to the chest. Being the injuries that ultimately caused his death.

In reconstructing the events, investigators determined that Monzón had an argument with his partner and stabbed him three times. Then he dismembered the body and left it on the public highway. A few hours later, the accused reported to the police station that his partner was absent from the house they shared and that he had left him alone to look after his seven-month-old son.

Based on the investigation carried out, Monzón was arrested and in prison he collapsed and confessed to the crime. So much so that a few days later, the security forces found the body of the victim. During the trial, the defendant not only admitted the facts, but also maintained that he had acted in self-defense and stated that he had dismembered the body due to the “fear” caused to him by the issue.

“He got dressed and told me he was going out. I refused him. There she brought a knife, started threatening me, attacked me, and I twisted her arm. In the struggle, he falls and I see the knife stuck in his chest. I was afraid. I got rid of the body and pretended she was gone,” was his statement released in 2015, weeks after his arrest, read and signed off by the defendant on the first day of the trial.

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