At a time when murderers are receiving 20-year sentences, the judges at the Collegiate Tribunal for Puerto Plata handed down a 30-year prison sentence to a woman who was found guilty of attempted murder of her former lover in July 2017. This is the maximum sentence contained in the Penal Code and was applied to Ramona Montero who tried to kill Thomas Antonio Mejia Martinez.
A press release by the Attorney General says that the tribunal, headed by magistrate Venezia Rojas, found Montero guilty after reviewing convincing evidence, including documents and testimony from the prosecutors. In the press communiqué, the Attorney General explains that during the development of the trial the Justice Department showed beyond a reasonable doubt that Ramona Montero was the one who threw acid on the victim while he was sleeping and then hit him with a bottle and began striking him with a knife.
The communiqué said that only the rapid intervention by neighbors and the 911 System made it possible to save the victim’s life. The press release also says that the sentence will be served at the Correctional and Rehabilitation Center For Women in Rafey, Santiago.
17 May 2018
