Fidel 'N', accused of attempted femicide for attacking his ex-partner Esmeralda Millán with acid, has been found guilty by a court in Puebla.
This is the second conviction for this type of crime in Latin America, the first being the case of Carmen Sánchez's attacker, already sentenced to 46 years in prison.
Until now, the number of years that the aggressor will have to spend in prison is unknown.
It will be next March 18 when the sentence is handed down.
“I am happy and content because in the end justice is going to be done to me despite how many years I have been fighting, even if they give it 40 or 50 years it is not going to give me back the Esme that I was, the security that I had, but there may be a change for society and that men do not see that they can be free causing so much damage,” Millán herself declared as she left the courts.
Fidel 'N' attacked Esmeralda on December 2, 2018. He threw a bucket of acid at her, destroying part of her face and body.
According to the Carmen Sánchez Foundation for women attacked with acid, 85% of the total victims were committed by a man, mostly partners or ex-partners of the attacked women.
Carmen Sánchez herself accompanied Esmeralda during the trial.
Last year, her attacker, Efrén García, was sentenced to 46 years and eight months in prison for the same crimes.
His case was the first that punished this type of aggression as an attempted femicide and not as an aggravating circumstance in a crime of injuries, which is how this type of violence was punished until now.
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