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Santo Domingo.- The collegiate court of Villa Altagracia sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for killing his ex-partner while enjoying the freedom that the same court, with the dissent of a judge, had granted him when processing him for the murder of a 19-year-old young man.
Juan Carlos Correa (alias Nano), who is serving prison time in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR) of Najayo Men, was sentenced to the maximum penalty after being found guilty of causing the death of his ex-partner Sixta Villar de Jesús, 44 years old, due to gunshot wounds, at the time the victim was leaving an evangelical church where she congregated.You may be interested in: Citizens condemn "Lesbian National Anthem" and call for sanctions
Last April, during the celebration of a new trial, Correa was also sentenced to 15 years in prison for the death due to two gunshot wounds of the young Edward Silverio Doñé, 19 years old, in an event that occurred in the Tierra Santa sector, of the municipality of Villa Altagracia, San Cristóbal province, on May 16, 2021, according to a statement from the Public Ministry. Following that crime, according to the record, the defendant fled the scene and then surrendered to the authorities almost five months later. The institution recalled that, in January 2023, during the trial, the Collegiate Court of Villa Altagracia, with the dissenting vote of the presiding judge Massiel Ivette Alonzo Rodríguez, acquitted him of the murder due to alleged insufficient evidence, but the Public Ministry appealed, so the Court of Appeals of San Cristóbal ordered the celebration of a new trial where the aforementioned sentence of 15 years in prison was imposed on him. Correa's defense appealed the 15-year sentence, with the hearing set by the San Cristóbal Court of Appeals for August 26th. The judges ordered, in both cases, that Correa serve the sentences at the Najayo Men's Correction and Rehabilitation Center (CCR), in San Cristóbal.
