The body of a 24-year-old girl was found in a vacant lot in Rivera, Uruguay. The Justice Department confirmed that she was the victim of sexual abuse.
After charging him with femicide, a crowd insulted him and tried to lynch him. Anderson Isaias Sosa Escotto, the accused, will spend180 days detained with preventive detention in the Cerro Carancho prison. The case that shocks Uruguay took place on Tuesday morning, when Prieto left his house and was heading towards the Rivera Teacher Training Institute, where he was studying. On the way he met a young man who made him deviate from his path, according to the newspaper El Pas. The victim's brother showed up at the police station, reporting that she had not returned to her house and that they did not have any information about her either. It is known that the accused young man was not the boyfriend of the murdered young woman, but they did know each other in the neighborhood. And police sources anticipated at a press conference that there were images that placed the accused with the murdered young woman.