A femicide who dismembered and burned his girlfriend on a grill, near another trial for gender violence

2023-08-28 06:22:00

Pablo Victor Cuchan murdered, dismembered, and burned his teenage girlfriend on a grill in October 2004 in the Buenos Aires town of Ingeniero White and, for that crime, He was finally released from prison in 2021. In April of this year he they stopped once more as accused of assault your new partnera case for which a prosecutor now asks that he go to trial.

The requirement of elevation to trial was presented last week by the Bahiense Sexual Crimes Prosecutor, Marcelo Romero Gardenwho accused Cuchán of 45 yearsthe crimes of “Minor injuries aggravated by the bond and by mediating gender violence (two events) in a real contest with threats“to the detriment of a woman with whom he had had a relationship for eight months.

According to the sources, the first of the events occurred at the beginning of April of this year, inside a house in the University neighborhood of Bahía Blanca, where Cuchán struggled with his partner, who later denounced it through the 144 line of Gender Violence. The ex-convict is accused of have returned on April 21 at the same address, where held by the neck the woman with his hands and covered her mouth to prevent her screams, causing minor injuries.

Cuchán in dating apps during the probation that he was granted for the femicide of Moretti

According to the prosecution, in the same act also threatened to kill the victim, whose data is preserved. The woman’s complaint was incorporated into the file, as well as injury certificates verified by forensic doctors and scientific police, as well as photos and statements from a neighbor.

For this case, Cuchán was arrested on April 24 in the resort town of Monte Hermoso, where he had settled following being released from prison for the murder of his girlfriend. Luciana Moretti. After being arrested, the defendant assured the prosecutor that he had requested his capture, Marina Larathat he did not injure the complainant and that he did not commit any of the acts with which he was charged.

Cuchán is detained for threatening to kill and beating his last partner

The sources indicated that, from the request for an oral trial, the Correctional Court 1 of Bahía Blanca will be in charge of setting the date for the debate. Meanwhile, Cuchán will continue to be detained in pretrial detention in a unit of the Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service by order of the Bahiense Justice of Guarantees.

At the time, the prosecutor Lara asked that the defendant remain in prison since, in freedom, he might “influence the testimony of the alleged victim, due to this close relationship, due to the vulnerability of this woman and by witnesses who do not want to testify out of fear.” The judicial investigator recalled that the complainant recounted that, at the beginning of the relationship, Cuchán “was affectionate, respectful and, as the relationship progressed, mistreatment, threats and beatings began”.

After the victim’s first complaint, a Bahía Family Court had ordered a restriction on Cuchán’s approach to her, as well as that the woman be provided with an anti-panic button, among other measures.

Pablo Víctor Cuchán: the femicide of Luciana Moretti

In it 2003the name of Cuchán had already had a public impact when he was missing for a week, following a sentimental breakup in which They accused him of dismembering the dog of his partner.

The femicide of Luciana Moretti occurred on October 16, 2004 in Cuchán’s house and the victim’s remains were dumped in the patio of that home, a junkyard and a waste ground. The crime was discovered nine days laterduring a raid carried out at the defendant’s home, where the three blades allegedly used in the crime and the bags of firewood with which the fire was lit to incinerate the body on the grill.

Luciana Moretti was 15 years old when she was murdered and dismembered by Cuchán, ten years older

“I grabbed 20 liters of solvent and 10 bags of firewood, I set a fire on it, closed the doors and left. Around 6:30 p.m. I cooled everything with water and then I put it in four bags, cleaned it and went to throw away what was left, “he declared at the trial. Although He did not admit to dismembering the teenagerHe said that at the moment he decided to light the fire “Luciana was no longer Luciana” and that the “body was extremely heavy.”

At the trial for Moretti’s crime, Cuchán declared that his 15-year-old girlfriend had died from a cocaine overdose and that since he was very drugged, he did not know what to do with the body, so he placed it on the barbecue grill. At that time, Cuchán was 25 years old.

Cuchán was sentenced to 18 years in prison, but between 2016 and 2019 he was on probation

“Today the road came to an end, Luciana’s murderer served his sentence and was released. I have a clear conscience that we did everything we might do to make him serve his sentence,” he said. Antonella, the sister of the teenager murdered when the murderer was finally released from jail. By then, Luciana and Antonella’s parents had passed away.

On July 16, 2007, Pablo Víctor Cuchán He was sentenced to 18 years in prison for the crime of Luciana Moretti, but later the sentence was reduced to 17 and in 2016 he was benefited from probation. However, in 2019 he was arrested once more for not respecting the rules of conduct that had been set for him and he was only released once more in 2021. In recent years, captures of a Tinder account with photos of the femicide have circulated on social networks.

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