• The crime Police arrest a man for the stabbing murder of his 14-year-old neighbor in her apartment in Oviedo
  • Recidivist This is how the detainee for the murder of Oviedo harassed a young woman: "My reason is troubled to see you, I would like to put a bag on your head"

The accused of the murder of a girl in Oviedo in April 2022 acknowledged this Friday in the Third Section of the Provincial Court to have killed the minor with cruelty and treachery and accepted the request for conviction of the Prosecutor's Office of the Principality of Asturias and the private accusation of reviewable permanent prison. The defendant also assumed 12 years and 6 months in prison for the sexual assault of the minor. The case was heard for sentencing.

The Public Prosecutor's Office maintains that the accused, of Moldovan nationality and in a regular situation in Spain, decided to end the life of the minor, 14 years old, time before executing his criminal action, on April 5, 2022.

To do this, he studied the schedules of entry and exit of the minor from his home, in Oviedo, so that he came to know that the girl returned home every day of the institute from 14:40 p.m., and decided that the best option to carry out his action was to wait for her one day when she returned from class.

Thus, minutes before 14:40 p.m. on April 5, 2022, the defendant decided to execute his purpose. To do this, he left perfectly down all the blinds of his home, located in the same building as that of the minor, so that no neighbor could see through the windows what was going to happen minutes later inside his house. Likewise, he kept inside the drawer of his bedside table a brown packing tape, as well as nine black cable ties, in case it was necessary to gag the child.

Finally, he took a table knife, eleven centimeters long and two centimeters wide, with a brown wooden handle, hid it among his clothes, left his home and waited hidden for the girl outside the farm, in an area near the portal, until she appeared and chopped the telephone of his house. Her father opened the door of the portal and the teenager entered the building, followed by the accused, without her noticing his presence.

Once the minor went to the elevator with the intention of going up to her house, the defendant pounced on her, from behind and in an absolutely surprising way, in such a way that the victim could neither foresee nor imagine the attack, so it was completely impossible for him to defend himself. The defendant then stabbed her first, while pushing her to the stairs and covering her mouth so that she would not scream.

Once on the stairs, the defendant dragged up, while continuing to stab him so that he did not resist, mainly in the right maxillary area of the face, lower labial area, chin and neck, and thus reach the privacy of his home as soon as possible. At the height of the right side of the last step, at the foot of the railing, the defendant knocked the girl down but, even so, she tried to defend herself and resist.

Once the defendant managed to drag the child to the landing of the first floor of the building, the girl tried to get up, in front of the elevator door, but did not succeed when she was again stabbed by the defendant and knocked to the ground.

Then, the defendant dragged the child down the corridor to the door of his home, along about seven meters, pulling the trunk of the girl and using the straps of the backpack he was wearing on his back, loaded with school books. Once inside the house, the defendant locked the door and dragged the child to the bathroom, where he left her, to go to her bedroom.

Sexual assault

There, he took off his clothes and returned to the bathroom, where the girl was, seriously injured and unable to move on her own. The defendant continued to stab her and sexually assault her.

Around 15:09 p.m., a neighbor called the National Police through 091 to the desperate cries of the child's brother, who did not stop banging on the door of the defendant's house when he saw the huge blood stains that were in the corridor on the first floor and his sister's jacket lying on the floor.

Minutes later, a patrol of agents arrived at the scene, who managed to access the defendant's home by forcing the window blind of the sliding door of the kitchen, which was unclosed. The police took the teenager out of the bathroom around 15:20 p.m. and placed her in the lobby, where they tried to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation operations, which lasted until the arrival of the health services, about 15:39 p.m. Moments later a mobile ICU arrived, which determined the death of the child.

The defendant, in the execution of his criminal purpose, inflicted a number of stab wounds that exceeded those necessary to produce the death of the girl and only did so to ensure that it caused her absolutely unnecessary pain and suffering.

The defendant, to ensure his purpose, used the great physical strength he presented in front of the victim, since the defendant was a 30-year-old man with an athletic build and the victim a 14-year-old girl and barely 50 kilos in weight.

36 stab wounds

The child died around 15:39 p.m. The body had at least 36 stab wounds. According to the defendant's mental forensics report, the defendant has normal intelligence, understands what has happened, and fully understands what is right and wrong. It presents a full imputability, with narcissistic features.

The defendant has been in pretrial detention without bail for this cause since April 8, 2022. This Friday he acknowledged being the author of a crime of murder and a crime of sexual assault (rape) to a child under 16 years of age.

After acknowledging the facts, the defendant assumed, for the crime of murder, the sentence of permanent imprisonment reviewable, as well as the measure of probation for a period of 10 years and with the obligation to always be reachable by electronic devices that allow permanent monitoring; communicate immediately, within the maximum period and by the means indicated by the judge or court for that purpose, any change of place of residence or place or job; prohibition to approach less than 500 meters and communicate with the parents and siblings of the minor and prohibition to reside in Oviedo or in any of the places of residence of the relatives of the victim.

For the crime of sexual assault (rape) of a child under 16 years of age, the penalty of 12 years and 6 months in prison.

In concept of civil liability, the defendant will compensate the parents of the minor with 200,000 euros each and her two brothers, with 25,000 euros in total, plus the corresponding legal interests.

  • Oviedo
  • National Police
  • Justice

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