Ferni Ayala (28) and Verónica González (27) were murdered this week in a context of gender violence. Those accused of killing them, who were their partners, escaped following the alleged femicide and are on the run. Felisa de los Santos (74) was found on Thursday lying in a pool of blood. Her husband was dead in the double bed and had a bloody razor next to her body.
“You said that he was the love of your life, and you took his life, the desire to smile, the desire to continue living, the desire to see his children grow, the desire for everything. Hopefully, and God willing, they find you and justice is done. She did not deserve this, she had a life ahead of her and you took her dreams away, ”said one of the messages that were shared on social networks following learning of the murder of Verónica González in González Catán, in the La Matanza district.
The femicide occurred on Thursday at noon in the house shared by Verónica and Brian Alexis Baigorria (30). The victim’s 8-year-old son witnessed it all. “Auntie, I was looking at the cartoons, they argued, they struggled, she turned around, he pulled out the revolver and hit my mom on the back of the head. He shot her and my mother fell, ”the aunt of the murdered young woman told C5N.
Then, according to what the boy told him, Baigorria grabbed a backpack and ran away, but before leaving, he told him: “I didn’t go, I wasn’t here,” so that the minor wouldn’t incriminate him. And the boy said another forceful phrase, as the woman recalled: “I am going to tell the police that he killed my mother, she shot him and left.”
At press time, the suspect was still on the run. Like Esteban Rojas (44), the moneylender of Paraguayan nationality, who is wanted for the murder of Ferni. The young woman was found dead from two shots in Villa Zavaleta, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracas.
Stories. In the first 55 days of the year, at least 30 femicides were registered, according to a survey carried out by PROFILE of cases that were made public. That is, a gender crime every 44 hours. In this same period there are six other facts that are presented as “doubtful” and it has yet to be determined if they fall within a homicide in a context of gender violence.
In January there were at least 17 femicides and one transfemicide. María de los Ángeles Dayer (43) was the first crime in a context of gender violence of the year. It happened in the capital of Entre Ríos. The victim’s ex-partner had shown up at her house the day before the murder and had threatened to kill her. The next day she returned and gave her two shots that ended her life.
While Jésica Olguín (33) was murdered in the house she shared with three of her four children in Las Heras, Mendoza. She was a native of Mar del Plata and had settled in that province ten years ago. A man showed up at the police station and reported that her brother, Jésica’s ex-partner, confessed to him that he had killed her and then had gone to sleep at her aunt’s house. Juan Manuel Tarrez was arrested for the fact.
On January 20, Juan Darío Sanabria Báez went to the police station in the Buenos Aires town of Moreno and denounced that his partner had been kidnapped and asked for ransom money. But then he broke down and confessed that he had murdered and dismembered Nilda Rosa González Ojeda (29).
Two days before, the femicide of Natalia Ester Castro (41) was known. He was killed by her ex-partner in a hotel accommodation in Posadas, in Misiones. “My dad ruined our childhood and now he’s ruined our lives by taking my mom away from us,” said the couple’s daughter in dialogue with PROFILE when the case was broadcast. Mario Maidana hurt himself to cause her death, but he did not succeed and he was detained.
Valeria Oviedo (21) was murdered in Córdoba. She was attacked with an iron inside a truck. The defendant was the driver of the vehicle, identified as Luis Ludueña, who was known to the family. The body was found on Provincial Route 13, in the town of Sacanta. While the transfemicide of Sofía Bravo (26) also occurred in that province, and due to the fact there is a trucker arrested.
In February, at least a dozen femicides were recorded. There are four registered as “doubtful”. Luz Prieto was murdered along with her mother, Norma Beatriz Morales, in Neuquén. Jorge Lagos, Norma’s partner, answered the police when they knocked on the door and said that his wife “was at a wake.” When the troops asked permission to enter, the defendant asked them for “a second” and tried to escape. He is arrested.
Yoo Kyunga, Paula García, Zulma Aramayo are other names that make up this statistic of unbridled sexist violence.
More than 300 victims in 2022
The family of Verónica González yesterday said goodbye to the young woman murdered by her partner with a shot to the neck. The victim’s father complained regarding the appearance of the defendant and maintained that they still “had not found him.” There is a warrant out for Brian Baigorria.
“I want justice. I thought that I was not going to live this once more, because he is my second son who passed away. I do not know what to do. I want him to turn himself in, that he can’t sleep that guy. Lacra”, commented Guillermo, Verónica’s father, to the press.
And he asked to have it for five minutes “face to face”. “I am not going to kill him, I am not a coward like him to take his life from behind like my daughter, but I want to have him for five minutes, face to face. Then I pay what I have to pay, ”she said while showing the fugitive’s photo.
Last year, there was a fatal victim of gender violence every 29 hours. 301 femicides were recorded in all of 2022, according to the annual report of the NGO La Casa del Encuentro, made from journalistic reports.
According to the detail, between January 1 and December 31, 2022, there were 292 femicides, 9 trans/vesticides and 18 femicides linked to men. 341 daughters and sons who were left without a mother were counted. Of them, 65% are minors.
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