Transfemicide of Aldana Lorenz: Her mother did not assist her and her brother is charged.
The Santa Fe court also charged the mother with abandonment of a person. Aldana was attacked on December 22, 2021, and was admitted to Cullen Hospital on the 24th. No one investigated what happened until January 3, when she died.
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Aldana Lorenz, who died on January 3, was the first trans person murdered in Argentina this year. The case is being investigated as a femicide, and the Santa Fe courts charged her brother this week with the crime and ordered him to be held in pretrial detention. Her mother is also being investigated for "abandonment of a person," as is the staff at the José María Cullen Hospital, which contacted the police 10 days after the young woman was admitted with a head injury.
On December 22, 2021, Aldana was at the home she shared with her mother in northern Santa Fe. A few months earlier, while working as a prostitute, a client had run over her to avoid paying her. She suffered a blow to the head and another to the leg, requiring surgery. At the end of last year, she was still not feeling well and was trying to recover.
That day, her brother, CAL, arrived and they argued. According to the investigation, their nephews testified in court that their uncle hit her on the head with a stick and then left. When their mother returned, the woman was lying on the floor, semi-conscious and unable to move, but she did not treat her or call anyone for help. "The woman is being investigated because, according to witness accounts, she allowed her daughter to remain on the floor for 48 hours, unable to get up on her own," explained prosecutor Cecilia Minniti at the time of the indictment.
On December 24, Aldana's sister went to the house to check on her and found her in that condition, so she took her to the hospital. At the Cullen Hospital, the woman reported that Aldana had been attacked by her brother; however, the staff did not notify the police or the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Ten days passed without the perpetrator being found or the necessary forensic investigations conducted. On January 3, Aldana suffered multiple organ failure and died. The investigation began immediately after his death, but his brother remained at large until last Thursday, when he was arrested on a busy avenue in the north of the city.
“It was nice to share with her”
“Aldana was very funny, playful, and respectful. She was very family-oriented… We saw each other occasionally, because whenever I organized a family birthday party, she was there. It was nice to spend time with her; she was never sad,” says Marcela Lorenz, her cousin, in an interview with Presentes.
Marcela saw Aldana “a couple of days before the Fiestas,” on 12 de Octubre Avenue in Santa Fe. “It must have been around 8 or 9 at night. I was running errands, and she was waiting for the bus at the gate, looking splendid. We just said hello,” she says of the last time they saw each other.
In the case
This week, the Special Prosecutorial Unit for Gender, Family, and Sexual Violence (GEFAS) of the 1st Regional Prosecutor's Office of Santa Fe charged her with femicide in the provincial capital's courts before Judge José Luis García Troiano.
"On the afternoon of the attack, the defendant and the victim began an argument, and he hit her in the head with a blunt wooden object," the Prosecutor's Office reported. "As a result of the attack, Lorens suffered a skull fracture," it was reported.
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