Diego Cruz Alonso, one of the four young men being accused of raping teen Daphne Fernández last year, was arrested by the Interpol in Madrid, Spain on Friday, sources revealed.
“We are waiting for the arrest to be formally confirmed to the Mexican authorities in the next few hours,” Fernández’s lawyer, Jorge Winkler, told Milenio Television’s news anchor Alejandro Domínguez.
He continued, “So he can be sent back to our country [Mexico] and be present in front of a Judge in Veracruz.”
According to recent reports, Cruz Alonso attempted to mislead Spanish authorities during the capture and denied he was the boy in the pictures. His identity was confirmed around 9:00 p.m. on Friday.
Cruz Alonso will be extradited to Mexico in the next 45 days, after officials finish gathering the documentation needed for his deportation.
On May 12, Enrique Capitaine, who has been identified as Fernandez’s main aggressor, was detained in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.
Capitaine, Cruz Alonso and Jorge Cotaita, who is still at large, are being charged with aggravated child abuse. Charges against the fourth member of the gang, Gerardo Rodríguez Acosta, were dropped because his only crime was being present during the assault.
Back in April, the victim’s father, Javier Fernández, agreed to narrate the horrible happenings during an interview with Jorge Ramos on Univision’s “Al Punto.”
“She was leaving the club and then she was taken against her will,” Mr. Fernández told Ramos. “She was forced to get in the car with these four individuals. You already know their names […]. And they took her against her will, they drove away, and on their way to their destination they began to sexually assault her. They later took her to a house, where they consummated the act.”
Daphne Fernandez has chosen to stay away from the media. However, on May 5, she asked her social media followers to “please, stop being hypocrites” and to stop treating her story as a “telenovela.”
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