On Tuesday, 6 March 2018, Judge Isolina Peralta dismissed the charges against Simón Bolívar Ureña, who was accused as an accomplice in the murder of 16-year old Emely Peguero. Ureña (alias El Boli) admitted to hiding the body of 16-year old Emely Peguero. She was five months pregnant.
In his third hearing, she allowed “El Boli” to go free having ordering members of the press to leave before her pronouncement. Simón Bolívar Ureña had been in preventive custody in jail.
The Public Prosecution Service had pressed charges that he had been paid RD$100,000 to hide the corpse on the orders by Marlin Martínez, mother of Marlon Martínez, lead suspect in the murder.
It appears that, off the record, over the last few weeks there have been negotiations between the Public Prosecutors and Peguero relative’s defense team for charges to be dropped against El Boli in exchange for his testimony regarding Marlin and Marlon Martínez, the main accused of the murder of the teenager. The 16-year old teenager is said to have been murdered after having been subject to a home-based abortion. She was carrying the baby of Marlon Martínez. No charges have been pressed against the physician that would have carried out the abortion.
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Listin Diario
7 March 2018
