04/13/2021 7:46 PM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 04/13/2021 7:46 PM
In February he had already threatened her:
"If you are not with me, you will not be with anyone
.
"
Two months later, he nearly killed her.
A punch to the face led her to make the decision to want to separate and leave the house in Lomas de Zamora that they shared.
He did not accept it, he caught her and
burned her face
with an iron.
The suspect is 20 years old and is intensely
wanted by the police
for beating and burning his 23-year-old partner in the Buenos Aires town of Ingeniero Budge.
"He has half of his face burned with the imprint of the iron,
he disfigured his face
, luckily his health is not in danger," a source in the investigation told the Télam agency.
This new case of gender violence occurred on Sunday, when the couple was returning to their home in the southern suburbs.
After an argument, the young man gave
his girlfriend
a
punch
in the mouth.
Upon arriving at the property they shared, the girl
told him that she wanted to separate
.
His partner responded with a brutal attack.
When the girl wanted to leave the room, the attacker grabbed her from behind and
burned her face
with an
iron
.
According to sources in the case, injured, the young woman went to the Burning Institute, where they made the first cures and
discharged her
.
Then the girl decided to
report
her partner.
The aggressor this Tuesday was intensely wanted by the Police.
In the last ten years in Argentina there is an average of one femicide every 30 hours.
According to statistics from the Office of Domestic Violence of the Supreme Court, in 2018 alone there were 278. Most murders occur in the homes of the victims and are committed by partners or exes.
Where to call
Line 144
Care for women in situations of violence.
Line 137
Attention to Victims of Family Violence.
911 Emergencies
The cause
The case is being investigated by the prosecutor Marcela Juan, in charge of the UFI No. 16 Specialized in Gender Violence and Family Violence of the Lomas de Zamora Judicial Department, who ordered the
arrest
of the author of the attack.
The cause was classified as "minor injuries and serious injuries
triple aggravated
by the relationship, gender violence and
treachery
."
In addition, the prosecutor accused him of "
coercion
" since last February he threatened to kill her, and warned her that if she did not continue with him, "she was not going to be with anyone."
Source: Télam
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