The National Police arrested three persons accused of severely burning a 19-year old woman with Plomerito “devil’s acid.” The substance is used to unclog toilets and domestic plumbing. It has been used as a criminal weapon in crimes of passion and revenge.
Yocaira Amarante Rodriguez was seriously burned when about to board a public transport vehicle by two on a motorcycle. The Police accuse her former spouse of contracting the two who carried out the crime on 25 September 2020. The Police said that 33-year old Willy Antonio Javier Montero, Pedro Alexander Sosa Mendez and Joan Jose Felix were arrested in the crime. Felix is accused of throwing the acid at the young woman. Javier Montero is the former spouse and father of her 2-year old daughter. The Police said he paid RD$3,500 for the service. He argued that it was a crime of passion because the woman had been unfaithful to him.
Amarante’s mother said her daughter had been living with Javier since “he took her,” when she was 14 years old. She said her daughter had been living with her since the past two months. She said the man’s jealousy was the killer. Her daughter is hospitalized at the burns unit of the Ney Arias Lora Trauma Hospital in serious condition with first degree burns on her face, neck, shoulders and part of her legs. She may loose her eyesight.
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30 September 2020