Juan Moliné Rodríguez and Mario José Redondo, the two well-off former university students sentenced to 30 years for the assassination of 12-year old José Rafael Llenas, when they were 18 years old, were sent to the La Victoria penitentiary yesterday. The two had been allowed to remain at the Najayo jail in San Cristóbal, where better living conditions prevail. La Victoria is rated as hell on earth. The situation that motivated the transfer was supposedly a photograph published in El Siglo newspaper that showed Moliné Rodríguez participating as a spectator in the beauty contest female inmates organized at the jail. In the photo, Moliné is seen conversing with a very lovely blond inmate. TV producer Rafael Corporán de los Santos complained of the privileges granted the inmates. Moliné was an accomplice of Redondo, who the trial established stabbed his 12-year old cousin more than 30 times after kidnapping him in 1996, supposedly under the influence of the husband of the former Argentine ambassador in the DR. Attorney General Mariano Germán Mejía ordered the transfer of the inmates yesterday afternoon. In their original sentence, Moliné and Redondo were ordered sent to La Victoria jail, but family appealed and were kept in Najayo for security reasons.
