translated from Spanish: He stabbed his ex-partner 18 times in front of his children: “Please don’t kill Mom.”

A new attempt at femicide occurred this weekend in Ezeiza. The details are shocking, as a man broke into his ex-partner’s house and stabbed her 18 times in front of the children they have in common, aged 4 and 8. The victim, Deborah Acevedo, has a lung punctured by aggression and fights for his life at Ezeiza Hospital. The attacked young woman, 26, had gunshot wounds to her head, face and chest, and her ex-boyfriend, Federico Vega, attempted suicide after the attack and was wounded on the floor a few feet from her.” She walked into her house breaking the window and attacked her directly, her children were yelling at her ‘please Daddy, don’t kill Mom,'” a friend of the young woman’s on her Facebook profile told her. “She punctured a lung, 18 stab wounds in front of her children, now she’s on oxygen because she can’t breathe on her own,” she added. According to the Télam news agency, Vega attacked his ex and then locked himself in the bathroom of the house where he wanted to take his own life, causing injuries to his chest and abdomen. Like the woman, the man was transferred to the same hospital and discharged after being surgically intervened. 

This is Debora Acevedo, my ex-sister-in-law. THIS SON OF A BITCH (FEDERICO RAMON VEGA) STABBED HIM 18, IF 18 AND TODAY SHE FIGHTS FOR HIS LIFE AND FOR HIS TWO HUJITOS. ONE OF THEM IS MY BIGGEST NIECE. IF WELL PEDIA TO THE BOY *DO NOT KILL MY MAMI* + pic.twitter.com/dnAYdqFO3Z — Spray (@btizianaa)
August 30, 2020

“Two creatures were left with the trauma of watching their dad try to kill his mother,” Deborah’s friend lamented in the nets, calling, “I want justice for my friend! Justice for your children.” The case was labeled as “attempted femicide and attempted suicide” and is investigated by prosecutor María Lorena González, in charge of the Functional InstructionAl Unit (UFI) 3 Specialized in Sexual Crimes, related to Trafficking in Persons and Gender and Family Violence, decentralized in Ezeiza.

Original source in Spanish