translated from Spanish: On June 30, the trial for Ivana Milio’s femicide will begin

Sunday, October 28, 2018. A 12-year-old girl asks her neighbor to let her into her house. She’s worried her mom won’t answer to the insistent calls. When she enters, she encounters the worst: her mother, Ivana, is dead. There are bloodstains all over the house, objects lying around, horror. The girl asks for help, someone assists her, but no one can believe it. Ivana Milio was 46.  She was a renowned businesswoman in the department: together with her family she managed one of the most important funeral homes in San Martín. For a time he lived with his partner, Julio Abel Mendoza González (32) in Guido Spano street, in the neighborhood “Solares del Centro”. Neighbors and relatives later confirmed that the relationship was tumultuous and that he controlled all of the woman’s movements. However, no one expected that day Ivana would be killed by July and not that she would flee under the command of a Ford Focus that belonged to the victim herself. Mendoza was on the run for a day, but then he turned himself in. The prosecutor of the case charged him for the crime of “homicide twice aggravated by the situation of coexistence and by means of gender-based violence”. The necropsy determined that the woman suffered blows to the face and head: “Violence is directed towards specific parts of the woman’s body that have to do with her silencing,” said prosecutor Sívori at the time. case will go to trial and it will be a jury composed of 12 people that will decide on the guilt of Mendoza, who risks a life imprisonment. In addition, it will be the first trial with these characteristics that develops in the East. The jury trial system began very recently and until now the processes have been in the Gran Mendoza and in the south of the province. Abel González Mendoza, the only defendant. You risk a life sentence. In this note:
Femicide
Ivana Milio
Saint Martin
mendoza
Jury trial

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