The Transit Court of the Justice Department of San Pedro de Macoris ordered Andres Céspedes to serve three months of preventive custody in jail in the start of the case against him for running over three children, two of who died, in the Santa Fe sector in San Pedro de Macoris. The children were walking home of their father after baseball practice.
Miguel Arredondo, the lawyer of the victims’ family, said the authorities must continue the investigation so that the other person who was present in the vehicle be taken to justice. A video showed how the person in the passenger seat switched with the driver and the vehicle left the scene, leaving the injured children on the road.
The deceased children are Yeremi Novel, 7 years old, and Yeferson Novel, 5 years old. Yeferson Novel was also injured.
Cespedes was ordered to serve the coercive measure in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center of San Pedro de Macoris.
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Noticias SIN
17 February 2022