The barber who stabbed his partner to death in front of his son in Flores has been sentenced to life

The Oral Criminal and Correctional Tribunal 17 of Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) sentenced life imprisonment Al venezuelan barber who stabbed his mate to death, Mayerling Mariana Blanco Bravoin April 2021 in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires Flores.

femicide Jose Antonio Rangel Moyeton30 years old, was found guilty of the crime ofdouble aggravated murder for having been committed against a person who was in a relationship and for having served as a mediator gender violence”. The prosecutor who filed the accusation María Luz Castany explained that “this case is a intimate femicide”, since it is proven that they were in a relationship, which judges Juan Giudice Bravo, Pablo Vega and Silvia Guzzardi agreed with.

Mariana was a 25-year-old girl who had told Rangel Moyeton of her intention to break up with the couple over the violence he had used after five years together. At that moment, the man took a knife and stabbed her 47 times, causing injuries to her neck, head, chest and arms. One of the most serious injuries was chestas it caused injury to the lung and pleura and caused great internal and external bleeding.

The femicide was witnessed by the son they both shared, who was only three years old at the time. The body was found by the victim’s sister-in-law and a neighbor around 7:30 p.m. in the apartment on the ground floor of the building on Calle Yerbal al 2984, in which they lived. The minor played a key role in the investigation, as he confirmed that his father had stabbed his mother.

When the women arrived at the apartment, they encountered the killer at the door, who claimed he was leaving the premises for having an argument with Mariana. However, he flees.

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Four days later, the man was arrested in the neighborhood of Balvanera in a hotel around the corner from Castles there Avenue Rivadaviawhere he was hidden.

The victim’s family claimed that the woman received constant threats from Rangel, in which he warned her that “he would kill her if she left him”, which deepened during the last part of the relationship. .

This is not the first manslaughter case the man has faced, as he was convicted in Venezuela for the same load. This was pointed out by the prosecutor in his argument and she later added: “I intended to kill her, as if she were an object of possession.

The representative of the prosecution assured that, during the trial, it was proven that the young woman was constantly subjected to violence. Witnesses said they saw Mariana beaten several times and were heard arguing constantly. In fact, it was found that 10 days before her death, the woman had had a bruise on the eye, produced by an assassin’s blow. “It hurts me more than it hurts you, believe me,” Rangel Moyeton wrote in a conversation on April 8, 2021 after Mariana complained about her eye.

“The motive for the femicide had to do with the fact that Mariana no longer wanted to be with him, that’s why she showed the messages and then what happened happened”, defended the prosecutor, according to information from telam.

Castany recalled that the murderer had accused the victim, as an excuse in the investigation, of not taking care of his son, of having raped the minor and of having problems with Dependencies. Faced with this, the prosecutor defended her position by stressing that women should not be held responsible for what happened or raise cases of gender violence as if it were “a conflict between peers or just a dysfunctional relationship”.

“Stereotypes and gender bias in the judicial system, they have very serious consequences because they can cause judges to misinterpret the laws,” he noted during his oral argument.

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