Minor Charged with Murdering Her Baby Was Abused by an Uncle

The child who was accused yesterday of murdering his Mayagüez baby of six months pregnant said this weekend to a paternal uncle and father of the newborn died and another smaller than 2 years, she gave birth when she was 14 .

Following the revelation that made this weekend Paola Rodríguez Acosta, 16, uncle of the child, identified as Hernán Rodríguez, was interviewed yesterday by the prosecutor Andy Rodriguez and will have to appear tomorrow at the prosecutor’s office to respond Mayagüez questions about a possible pattern of sexual abuse. The authorities also plan to do DNA tests to corroborate the girl’s.

Rodríguez Acosta was charged as an adult Friday with first-degree murder for allegedly strangling a baby who had just given birth in the bathtub of her home in Mayagüez.

For more than two years Rodríguez Acosta hid the identity of the father of her two children, including parents and Sadí Maribel Rodríguez Rodríguez Acosta Muniz, who works at the Mayaguez Campus,

By confessing the crime, the girl said she strangled the baby of 30 weeks of gestation, not wanting a second child without a father, the agent said Manuel Caraballo, Criminal Investigation Corps (CIC) of Mayagüez. Not that baby and the eldest, who is now under the custody of the Department of Families, were recognized by Rodriguez.

As narrated the least, Rodriguez, 39, fathered a boy of 36 who is now 2 years.

Acosta Rodriguez lived with his grandmother since December in the Dry Valleys sector of the district in Mayaguez and Rio Hondo is under electronic monitoring since yesterday after being charged with murder and destroying evidence.

The child’s uncle owns the business Mayaguez Golden Diamond, a “pub” where half-naked women dance.

Captain Jaime Rivera, head of CIC said that Rodriguez Mayaguez and was interviewed yesterday by the prosecutor Andy Rodriguez.

He said he managed the removal of genetic material in their bodies to DNA testing to prove he is the father of both creatures.

To refuse the application, it would fill an order from a court.