A "possessive personality, extremely jealous and with little tolerance for frustration," described the judges of the Oral Criminal and Correctional Court No. 29 in the
foundations of the sentence
for the femicide of Marianela Rago.
They talk about Francisco Amador (36), the victim's former partner and detained since November 29, when the conviction verdict was announced.
Amador was considered guilty of the crime of
aggravated homicide
for having been committed with
cruelty and treachery
.
13 years passed between the crime, committed in June 2010, and the conviction.
"The rejection of her call and the knowledge that she was really starting to date someone else, in the face of her possessive personality, extremely jealous and with little tolerance for frustration, were without a doubt what triggered the tragic death of Marianela "Judge Hugo Navarro argued in his vote.
For the three judges, the context of gender violence in which Marianela was immersed during the time she met her boyfriend was proven.
Her friends and the young woman's family were key to reconstructing the episodes of violence that tormented the young woman.
But without a doubt, one of the most shocking stories of the trial was that of
another ex-partner of Amador
, with whom she had a baby, and who expressed attacks very similar to those reported by Marianela to her friends.
Marianela Rago was murdered in June 2010.
"Francisco went out at night and they argued. He got angry and told her that she had a bad head, that she was crazy and that
he hit her on the head with his finger all the time
. He wanted to defend himself, he wanted to hit her and grabbed her hands, He slapped her, threw her to the floor and on the bed, and she felt very afraid and told him “that's how you hit Marianela” and he looked at her with a lot of hatred," the testimony replies in the foundations of the ruling to argue the coincidence in Amador's violent ties.
"That romantic relationship became increasingly conflictive. What had started in Rio Grande, worsened sharply in Buenos Aires, with Marianela
away from her family
. It was proven that Francisco Amador, far from accompanying her in the way he said in his investigation, , ended up chasing her and controlling her in every step," they described about the relationship.
They also made reference to the "fury" that he unleashed at the time of the femicide: "He was involved in extremely violent episodes with her, he hit her and threatened her on numerous occasions, until the day when, due to an attack of jealousy and fury, he died."
Regarding the injuries, they considered that "it was demonstrated that
the author wanted to kill, but made her suffer
, as revealed by the repeated sharp sharp injuries that he caused to the victim, the vast majority of which were not deep enough to injure vital organs or arteries in their course," they described, analyzing the expertise and the forensic report.
Furthermore, it was clear that for the court the signs on the clothing found in Amador's house were key evidence in making its decision.
The hug of family members on December 1, 2023, when Amador was sentenced to life.
Photo: Juano Tesone
"The aggressor - with the victim on the floor - placed himself firmly on top of him, causing the injury to the liver with his knee. Curiously, Amador's pants had the knee rubbed. This is linked to the blood stain that was 20 cm of Marianela's body," they pointed out.
Those clothes, although genetic material could not be extracted, were decisive in locating Amador at the crime scene.
The thing is that she was hidden, wet, inside a basket of dirty clothes, "scrubbed" and with the clear intention of being hidden.
The blood stains had been washed and also scrubbed in areas where the experts described that they could have had blood stains, according to the position of the body's discovery.
In addition, the presence of fibers, fluff and hair, compatible (only some, in diameter and color) with the carpet from Marianela's house.
Patricia Zapata, Marianela Rago's mother, "it was a fair ruling."
And they were very
"satisfied with the fundamentals
. "
The fact
Marianela was murdered.
They found her body on June 28, 2010, when her brother Matías went to see what was happening in the 7° "A" apartment that the girl rented on 2080 Tucumán Street. They couldn't find her, she had not gone to several meetings that She had plans and
no one knew anything about her
.
The victim was on the living room floor and, according to the autopsy,
he died with his throat slit and with 23 stab wounds
from a knife, which disappeared from the kitchen drawer of the house.
The forensic doctor Héctor Di Salvo, who performed the autopsy, stated during the trial that "the cause of death was a slaughter" and that, in addition, "he had a tear in the liver, which could also be a suitable injury to cause death." death".
Amador always denied violence and accused his friends of being jealous of the relationship they had.
Furthermore, throughout the trial, he attempted to deflect the accusation away from her and hold Marianela responsible for her death by accusing her of her problematic substance use.
He also tried to establish the version that someone outside the department had entered and that those people would be responsible for the crime.
His entire alibi, the people he said he had been with that night, denied his statements.
No one supported his testimony or found friends or acquaintances who gave a version contrary to the gender violence exercised, not only against Marianela, but also against her ex-partner, mother of her son.
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