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May 20, 2021
3:40 PM CDT
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Reuters
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El Salvador officials said on Thursday they were excavating a clandestine cemetery discovered at the house of a former police officer and containing as many as 40 bodies, most of them believed to be women.
Exhuming the bodies could take another month, authorities said. The remains of at least 24 people had been recovered so far at the house in the municipality of Chalchuapa, about 48 miles (78 kilometers) northwest of the capital San Salvador.
At least 10 people are facing charges, according to the office of the attorney general, including a former police officer, Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chavez, whose home is on the same site as the clandestine cemetery.
Neither Osorio nor his lawyer could immediately be reached for comment.
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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-clandestine-cemetery-investigated-possible-femicide-mass-grave-2021-05-20/
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Google translation from local newspaper:
JUDICIAL
Psychopath accused of murdering mother and daughter in Santa Ana sent to prisonPublished 1 week ago the May 12, 2021For Cronio writing
The First Justice of the Peace of Chalchuapa ordered provisional imprisonment for Hugo Ernesto Osorio Chávez, accused of two aggravated femicides, to the detriment of two women, mother and daughter, which occurred on Friday last week in the Las Flores de Chalchuapa neighborhood, Santa Ana.
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) maintained that there is sufficient evidence to prove the participation of the accused in the act against women.
Osorio Chávez is a former police officer who was fired from the corporation more than 10 years ago, according to investigations.
Citizens can be sure that prosecutors work with the utmost adherence to legality. Our goal is to end impunity. People are already fed up, said the prosecutor Rodolfo Delgado, this Wednesday morning.
https://croniosv.com/nacionales/judicial/envian-a-prision-a-psicopata-acusado-de-asesinar-a-madre-e-hija-en-santa-ana/
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Google translation:
10 bodies found in the house of a former police officer accused of femicide
Two femicides opened the way for exhumations in the former agent's home, where more victims were later located, some of whom could have been dead for up to two years. Nine other people were charged as perpetrators, instigators and accomplices.
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UNIVISION AND AFP
16 MAY 2021 - 11:53 AM EDT
Ten bodies were unearthed last Friday in the home of a former police officer who had been accused of the murder of two women.
The bodies were located in different graves in the house in Chalchuapa, department of Santa Ana, about 56 miles (90 km) west of San Salvador, the capital.
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) of El Salvador accuses the former agent Hugo Ernesto Chávez Osorio, in whose house the discovery was made, of being part of a criminal gang to which 13 victims are attributed , reported AFP.
"The FGR-SV has issued arrest warrants against nine defendants involved in 13 murders as perpetrators, instigators and accomplices of Hugo Ernesto Chávez Osorio, captured and prosecuted for the femicide of a mother and her daughter, committed in Chalchuapa," he said. the justice body on Twitter.
On May 8, the Police were alerted to a violent act in a house in Chalchuapa. Upon arrival, they found that a mother and her daughter had been murdered.
That fact opened the way to exhumations in the house, where this Friday more victims were located, some of whom could have been dead for up to two years.
The head of the FGR's Anti-Gang and Homicide Crimes Unit, Max Muñoz, stated that in Chalchuapa "thirteen cases of aggravated femicide and aggravated homicides" have been resolved by "10 defendants" against whom arrest warrants were issued.
They are charged with eight "aggravated femicides", including that of a 7-year-old girl, and of "five aggravated homicides," including a 9-year-old boy and a two-year-old boy.
"These thirteen cases are going to be prosecuted and a prosecutor's request will be presented next Monday" in a court of the peace in Chalchuapa, which will determine the "precautionary measure" for the detainees, said Muñoz.
Those accused of the multiple crime "are not classified as gang members," Muñoz said.
For her part, the head of the FGR's Women's Office, Gabriela Sagastume, declared that those involved can be awarded "special aggravations" in terms of femicides because they have been carried out in a context of "prior sexual violence." .
According to a press release from the presidency, the former police officer has a "criminal record" and was previously prosecuted for the crime of "rape." He was claimed by the courts for cases of "aggravated rape."
"Investigations indicate that the detainee (former police officer) would have a psychopathic disorder," the statement underlines.
The Minister of Security and Justice, Gustavo Villatoro, pointed out that the main suspect (the former police officer) was "hunting" through social networks or through messages on youth media programs. The detainees are related to human trafficking networks, he said.
El Salvador closed 2020 with 1,322 homicides, an average of 20 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants , a significant reduction compared to 2019 and the lowest figure since the end of the civil war in 1992, according to official statistics.
https://www.univision.com/noticias/sucesos/localizan-10-cadaveres-en-vivienda-de-expolicia-salvador