The epidemic of femicides continues with the murder of a 26-year old woman in Boca Chica who was stabbed to death by her partner near the beach on Sunday night, 26 November 2017. The victim is Ani Mojica Ramírez; her partner Joan Antonio Rodríguez Contreras fled the scene. The couple had been living together for two years. She worked in a restaurant in Boca Chica and he was a casual laborer. Her body was taken to the Forensic Pathology department in the National District.
On Sunday, giving a year of preventive custody to Martin Bautista Ogando for the murder of his ex- partner Geraldin Sánchez Baldera, Judge Alejandro Vargas said that he should prepare himself to serve at least 30 years in jail.
In the past week, Ana de León was stabbed to death by her partner Luis Gonzalo in Los Brazos in Santo Domingo East, who then killed himself with the same knife. The woman worked as a housekeeper in a National District home.
On Saturday, 25 November, Gabriel Ortiz was found hanged to death near the Colon Lighthouse, after seriously injuring his ex-partner Yuleici María Aquino, aged 21, in El Almirante.
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28 November 2017
