On August 1 of last year Agustín Mamaní, 22 years old, was found stabbed to death in his home, in Luján de Cuyo. Ten months after the crime and when the case was already close to being brought to trial, the unexpected result of tests carried out on the cell phone of the victim led to the opening of a parallel case.
During the telephone investigations they found photos and videos of sexually abused boys which, they suspect, Mamaní received and shared, so they are now seeking to identify the recipients of that material through IPs.
The seriousness of the discovery gave start a parallel instruction in the Secretariat Specialized in Grooming Crimes for MASNNA (material of sexual abuse of girls, boys and adolescents) and MESNNA (material of sexual exploitation of girls, boys and adolescents).
The same media indicated that those around the murdered young man want prevent it from transcending the content found on Mamaní’s cell phone and, with this objective, they will search reach an abbreviated trial to quickly close the case.
The crime of Agustín Mamaní
Agustín Mamaní’s body was found by his sister when she returned to her home in the Unión y Fuerza neighborhood. He was face up in one of the rooms in the middle of a pool of his own blood and in plain sight at least 10 injuries were noted of a knife.
A little more than three hours later, they were arrested for the crime to the victim’s ex-boyfriend, Agustín Caparroz, when he went to be treated at the Hospital del Carmen for the injuries he suffered, it is believed, as a result of a fight with Mamaní.
The prosecutor in charge of the case, Claudia Alejandra Ríos, charged the detainee with the crime of “homicide aggravated by the bond” following the testimony of several witnesses, who indicated that the victim and the suspect They had been a couple for two years.. In fact, the main hypothesis suggests that Caparroz murdered Mamaní because he could not get over the end of the relationship.
Its about first case in the province that such a qualification is used for a murder in a homosexual relationship. If found guilty, Caparroz will be sentenced to the only possible penalty: life imprisonment.
