“The system worked horribly wrong,” said the lawyer for the young woman’s family, Martín Etcheverry.
The family of valentina cancelsthe teenager murdered by her ex-partner last week, announced that she will denounce the State for not having functioned correctly in the face of the three complaints against the femicide and a perimeter restriction before the event happened.
Last week the police found the body of the adolescent 17 years old, buried on a beach in Maldonado. The perpetrator of the act was her ex-boyfriend – who confessed to the femicide and the place where he had buried her – and who had three complaints made for physical and psychological violence and one perimeter restriction.
Faced with this, the family lawyer, Martin Etcheverry, assured that they will present a complaint to the State. “I can’t understand how no measures were taken, even of a criminal nature, at that time,” Etcheverry assured Underlined. The lawyer assured that this Thursday they will provide evidence to the Prosecutor’s Office, among those that are the cell phone that Valentina’s murderer broke.
“I don’t know if the error was made by the court, if it was the fault of a bad communication from the Police with the judge when she passes the records, I don’t know if it’s the fault of those disastrous dates when a judicial fair begins because substitute judges enter, there may be a lack of communication. What is clear is that the system malfunctioned terribly in this case,” the lawyer remarked.
The government admitted failures in preventing the case of Valentina Cancela
the director of InMujeres, Monica Bottero, admitted this Thursday that “the risk was not correctly assessed” in the case of Valentina Cancela. “Between January and July there were 24,480 complaints for gender violence. A risk assessment is made because custodial protection measures or anklets cannot be put in any case. Obviously the risk was not correctly assessed,” he acknowledged, reported Telemundo.
“When there is a femicide that presented, in some way, some type of previous risk that it could happen, there is a feeling that we failed, we cannot deny it,” he said, referring to the fact that the femicide had three previous complaints for physical violence and psychological.
Bottero reflected that “the gender violencedomestic, in couple ties, has a root and a connotation that is not strictly criminal”, and urged the educational communities, families and other “community environments that are aware” of the link to “intervene in time”.
Source: Ambito
