The disappearance, death and discovery of the 21-year-old has riveted the nation, even as the killing of women has become wearyingly familiar. That might be at least in part due to the identity of the man accused in her death: her American boyfriend.
What he found instead was a corpse.Valentina Trespalacios’s legs had been carefully folded so her body could fit inside a blue rolling suitcase. The luggage was wrapped in black tape. Her head protruded from an opening.
Colombia authorities have charged John Nelson Poulos, 35, with femicide and concealing evidence. He has pleaded not guilty. If convicted, he could be sentenced to up to 40 years in prison. “It is sexist language that leads to the question: What did the victim do to provoke her aggressor?” she said. “The attorney general’s office should show more discretion, more respect toward the victims.”
Mariana Botero is coordinator of Rosario University’s law clinic on gender-based violence. Even after the passage of Cely’s law, she said, fighting femicide here remains a challenge.“We have the norms, but there are plenty of judicial officers who still call us ‘exaggerated,’” she said. “This is a weak state that normally reacts only to well publicized cases, while others remain forgotten.”
On Jan. 24, two days after Trespalacios’s body was found, an Interpol alert enabled authorities in Panama City to arrest Poulos before he boarded a flight to Istanbul. Colombian officials traveled to Panama to bring him back on a twin-engine police aircraft.Trespalacios’s friends and family have told investigators that the couple had a year-long long-distance relationship, police records show. They met around four times in Mexico and Colombia before moving in together Jan. 20.
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