Relatives of victims of the Satanic are beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel

That same week it was performed before the Single specialized court of the circuit of Barranquilla, led by Jorge Luis Torregrosa Monsalve, the legal proceedings against Tomás Maldonado for the disappearance and death of Yadira Martínez Gutiérrez, which took place in 2002.

This case, under the old Law 600, is the one that keeps alias El Satánico behind bars, because years ago a right of control of guarantees succeeded in granting him freedom due to the expiration of time limits within Brenda Pájaro’s trial.

EL HERALDO took the stage last Thursday, June 1 at the Judicial Services Center and there the Public Prosecution Service presented some witnesses to the judge to prove the relationship between the victim and the perpetrator.

A sister of Martínez and the son of the deceased went to the podium, Carlos Arizawho backed up what he had said years ago when Tomás Maldonado was arrested for Brenda’s death.
In February 2019, in the midst of preliminary hearings on the subject, Ariza recognized him when he saw his face on television and in newspapers.

Despite the fact that Carlos reported his mother’s disappearance to the Public Prosecution Service on October 10, 2002, over time the hope of finding her alive faded and to this day her body has not been found.
According to her account, Yadira left her house at that time and days later Tomás Maldonado returned saying that they would send him clothes and money for her, “that she is well”.

Now, according to Ariza, it is expected that the trial will proceed without so many obstacles and that the individual will be convicted of the crime of his mother and of the men and women who appear in a file of the prosecutor’s office.

“I know that he (Satanic) will not give me my mother’s remains, but I want to give him a holy burial, I want him to be convicted of the crime of femicide without a reduced sentence. I ask the authorities not to disappoint me, to convict him without a reduced sentence, so that I can have peace of mind and have a symbolic funeral for my mother,” Ariza told this newspaper.

In the fervor, in which Maldonado participated virtually, the dressed Torregrosa intervened to make it clear to the defendant that he had a “reckless” attitude in repeatedly requesting probation.

“Mr. Tomás Maldonado has not left me alone with so many requests, with so many demands. For now, if you ask me verbally, I tell you that I will not give it to you, firstly because you do not deserve it and secondly because you are reckless. You’re not in jail for me, you’re in jail for some situations persecution accused him,” said the judge, looking at the screen where Maldonado listened to him from the prison of Modelo de Barranquilla.