He stabbed his ex-wife in front of her children and they will reduce her grief for a sentence that she said at the time of the attack

Brian Petrillan He stabbed his ex-wife five times in front of his children and left her unable to walk normally. He was sentenced for attempted femicide to 12 years in prison. But now, the Chubut Superior Court of Justice has lowered him: he maintains that there was no intention to kill.

In a resolution signed by Ministers Miguel Donnet, Mario Vivas and Alejandro Panizzi, the highest court of the province has set aside the penalty for attempted femicide and called it "Serious injuries are aggravated by gender-based violence". With this change, the sentence will be between 3 and 10 years, as resolved in a new audience.

The judges accepted the arguments of public defender Custodio Gómez, who said that "the blows (directed) against Gallego's legs indicated that his intention was to wound her, not to kill her." the waist, neck or chest. "

But the most striking aspect of the decision is the judges' interpretation of a sentence pronounced by the man at the time of the attack.. As stated in the file, Petrillan told the woman "You will remember me". The magistrates appreciated these words. They understood that "The attitude adopted by the author during the execution of the event, which did not progress before committing suicide, but told him that he was would remember him ".

For the judges, this also indicated that it was not his intention to kill the person in the room where there was a minor whom Petrillán saw, who could report him. badault or seek help, and the fact that the accused had stopped the badault without mediating the act or the action of a third party ".

The fact that justice is badyzed has occurred June 11, 2016, when Juan Braian Petrillán went to the address of Erika Gallegowho slept at home with his youngest children. He kicked the door and hit five stab wounds "causing wounds of such seriousness, resulting in significant blood loss," the judgment says, according to the Chubut Attorney General's office.

The aggression was in front of their children. He was even one of the small children who had left his house and had warned his grandmother of what had happened. The woman found "the children crying and her daughter lying in a pool of blood, so she was immediately transferred to the hospital," says the court record. Gallegos suffered "a serious commitment to life" and his injuries made him unable to walk. His striker had another chance and he will now benefit from a reduced sentence.