Choose reads police reviews describing buckets stuffed with physique elements, and bones in a bath, flesh inside a blender at crime scene
JUAREZ, Mexico (Border Report) – A Mexican choose has ordered the pinnacle of a Juarez drug rehab clinic and her buddy to face trial for femicide in reference to the dying and dismemberment of a former Wichita, Kansas, resident.
Chihuahua state Choose Brisa Yadira Meraz on Friday informed protection attorneys and prosecutors there’s sufficient proof to presume that Diana Paola E.L. and Claudia Rubi R.E. betrayed the belief of a affected person, killed her throughout an episode of drug withdrawal after which dismembered her physique in an try to cover the proof.
The ladies now face 41 to 80 years in jail for the aggravated femicide of Celia Yaneth Castañeda. An post-mortem revealed the lady died of blunt power trauma to the pinnacle.
The choose dominated a gender bias applies as a result of the ladies took benefit of an individual below their care, somebody who was susceptible due to her sickness, and that they probably wouldn’t have accomplished the identical to a person. Additionally, “there was a excessive degree of cruelty and hate” in opposition to a feminine and so they defaced her physique after the killing, Meraz mentioned throughout Friday’s listening to.
State police performing on a tip on the night of Could 19 arrested the 2 ladies at a house neighborhood simply south of Downtown Juarez. The choose on Friday learn a police report describing how the proprietor of the property opened the door to cops, pointed them to his tenant’s entrance door and a lady later recognized as Claudia Rubi, the clinic’s operator, opened the door.
The report says the officers noticed a metallic trash can with bloody black-and-white pajamas and a lady’s slipper. Because the officers entered the residence, Diana Paola and Claudia Rubi allegedly tried to run away from the property however had been caught and subdued by the officers.
When backup arrived, the scene was straight out of a Hollywood slasher film.
Police discovered plastic buckets inside a bath stuffed with human bones and flesh; plastic baggage containing six massive bones and two patellas; and a blender stuffed with human flesh. A feminine pelvis had been stripped of the genitalia, which the suspects allegedly tried to liquefy together with different delicate physique tissues and intestines.
“For the sake of not revictimizing the sufferer, for the sake of her dignity, I can’t go on” studying the police report, Meraz informed prosecutors and protection attorneys as the 2 suspects sat within the again. The 2 ladies wore grey sweatsuits and black tennis footwear – normal subject at Juarez’s Cereso No. 2 ladies’s jail. Neither addressed the court docket on Friday.
Protection legal professional Luis Oaxaca mentioned his shoppers could have been discovered by police in the identical home because the human stays, however that doesn’t imply they killed Castaneda. He mentioned forensic consultants have concluded Castaneda was not killed on the house the place the stays had been discovered.
Oaxaca mentioned Juarez police solely have a “speculation” of what they assume occurred however don’t have anything however circumstantial proof. He mentioned police didn’t have a search warrant to enter the house the place the stays had been discovered. He requested the choose for the ladies’s launch.
State prosecutor David Armendariz mentioned investigators have loads of proof, together with a enterprise card of Monarch drug rehab clinic discovered subsequent to the stays. In addition they have testimony from the aunts of the sufferer, who took her to Monarch on Could 16 and had been informed by the suspects on Could 18 that their niece had “escaped” the clinic.
Her relations took Castañeda to the clinic after she returned from america and developed an habit to medicine and alcohol. A neighbor who was once a cook dinner at Monarch really useful the clinic to them.
Investigators’ testimony learn at Friday’s listening to contains that of Castañeda’s aunt, stating she was informed her niece had a “violent episode” and assaulted a caretaker the evening she disappeared. She additionally testified she noticed different feminine sufferers when she dropped off her relative. After her disappearance, the clinic was empty.
Armendariz mentioned the officers who entered the house didn’t want a search warrant after seeing the bloody garments. At the moment, they had been in against the law scene and the ladies had been in flagrant fee of against the law. He mentioned police did have a search warrant once they raided the Monarch clinic hours later, which is the place Castañeda was probably killed.
Armendariz requested for 5 months from the choose to carry out DNA testing and discover different sufferers on the rehab clinic that might function witnesses. The choose granted the keep and ordered the ladies to stay in jail till then. She mentioned there’s possible trigger that the ladies are responsible as charged. In Mexico, trials are presided by judges, not juries.
Diana Paola and Claudia Rubi had been handcuffed by a jail guard instantly after the listening to and brought again to Cereso No. 2.
