Ariel Merlo, brother of Junieysis Merlothe Nicaraguan mother found dead inside a pit in a condominium in Saint Annerevealed details about the difficult situation that his sister was experiencing before her disappearance.
After traveling to Costa Rica to look for her sister and receiving the unfortunate news about the discovery of the body, Ariel related The Nation who repeatedly insisted that he leave his partner, a Costa Rican with the last name Ramírez Calvo, 57 years oldwho is detained for this case.
They capture Junieysis Merlo’s partner in Cartago
Ariel, who worked for a time in the same condominium where the couple lived, described the suspect as a person totally aggressive and with “horrible attitudes.”
“I called him many times, I told him to get away, for us to leave, even when I left that place where I was working with him I wanted to take her to Nicaragua, we were going to leave, But for the love of her girls she didn’t do it and look what happened. “She gave her life for the love of her daughters,” he confessed.
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At the same time, she made an urgent call to other women who are going through situations of violence.
“I want everyone, women who have relationships similar to those, to raise their voices, to Don’t be silent, raise your voice in time before lamenting a tragedy like the one we are experiencing in this country,” he added.
They will fight for custody of their nieces
The family confirmed that they will begin the process to obtain the custody of the two daughters of the victim, four-year-old twins who are currently under the protection of the National Children’s Trust (PANI).
“We want justice to be done and for us to have full custody of the girls because they cannot be left in the hands of anyone else, only us, because we are the family and we are the ones who must take full care of them,” he added.
At the same time, he called on the Costa Rican authorities so that the case does not go unpunished.
“We want justice to be done, for the elected president of this country to hear our voice in the nation of Costa Rica. We are foreigners in this country, but we are human beings, we want to be heard, We want that voice that was silenced by the hands of a criminal to continue to rise in this country, May there be women who raise their voices in the name of my sister that his voice was silenced by the hands of a criminal,” he added.
Suspect arrested
The suspect, Ramirez Calvowho is the father of the minors, was arrested in Carthage during the early hours of this Thursday, after the discovery of Junieysis’s body.
Michael Soto, director ai of the Judicial Investigation Organization (OIJ), explained that the man reported that he had moved to that area alleging insecurity, taking the girls with him.
After the investigation, the PANI intervened to put the minors safe before proceeding with the capture of the subject.
The Public Ministry confirmed that in the next few hours it will take the investigative statement from the suspect for the alleged crime of femicide. The case is processed under file 26-001712-0057-PE.
According to the OIJ report, The body was hidden in a hole dug in the condominium land.. Although no visible injuries were preliminarily observed, the remains were sent to the Judicial Morgue to determine the exact cause of death.
Junieysis Merlo, a native of San Juan de Río Coco, in the department of Madriz, Nicaragua, was recognized on the social network TikTok, where she had more than 13,000 followers. The young woman had lost contact with her family at the beginning of Holy Week.
His father, Maximiliano Merlo, told andThis means that Ramírez was the last person who had contact with her before her disappearance.
