8-year-old girl witnessed how her mother was stabbed to death by her partner in Uruguay

Florencia Espinosa was murdered in the most cruel way on Saturday night after fighting with her partner, who arrived at her home in Montevideo (Uruguay) and began to physically attack her. According to the authorities, the victim lost her life in the presence of her youngest daughter after receiving several perforations in the thorax with a kitchen knife.

The 29-year-old victim and her 43-year-old attacker had shared the same space for a decade, but there were never previous reports of family abuse. Justice is expected to make a decision in the coming days.

“My parents fought, they grabbed each other by the hair. Mom wanted to take out the knife “, the 8-year-old girl told her uncle, who spoke with Montevideo Portal to provide details about the death of her sister-in-law.

After being shot, the woman still alive was able to escape from her home with her daughter and reach her brothers-in-law’s pizzeria, where she was seen by one of the workers. Florencia was transported to a hospital for emergency care for her multiple injuries, but she did not resist the operation on her chest and died of stab wounds to the chest, according to the file.

Another reported femicide

The police went to the house of the murderer – whose identity was not revealed – to arrest him, but they were received with a threat that did not last long because the troops reduced the man, who will be accused of the crime of “Very especially aggravated homicide”.

The defendant will spend 180 days in preventive detention while the investigations continue, waiting to know the sentence that ranges between 15 and 30 years.

The cases of femicides in Uruguay They show a large decline in recent years: in 2018, 35 cases were registered; in 2019 there were 25; and in 2020 it dropped to 16 femicides.

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