Jimena Esmeralda Jerónimo Argueta He was seen with life for the last time on April 18, 2025, during a holiday for resurrection Sunday.
The 13 -year -old girl was captured in a video while danced with her friends around 9 pm. She wore black pants and a pink blouse. Four hours later she was found dead, seven kilometers from her house.
For that fact, the victim’s cousin, Franklin Gustavo Aceituno Argueta22, he was linked to criminal proceedings for the crime of femicide.
According to the Public Ministry (MP), the report of the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) revealed that the body of the child had blows, had fluids and sperm.
He added that the process continues and is waiting for the judge’s authorization to practice medical exams to Aceituno Argueta, in order to determine if the fluids agree with those found in the body of Jimena Jerónimo.
Jimena’s last night
Around 9 pm, Jimena told her parents that she wanted to return home. To entertain himself, he asked for his mother’s cell phone.
“The girl did not have a cell phone. The mother handed her her phone and Q8 to buy an Internet recharge,” said the Prosecutor’s Office against the crime of femicide.
The child arrived at her home, where her younger brother was, who told him that he would go to the store, located about 200 meters.
“The owner of the store told him,” Jimena – who could not make her recharge because she did not know how to read or write, and neither manipulate the cell phone. Women’s children were the ones who made that recharge, but they were at the party, “said the Prosecutor’s Office.
“I said,” Jimena, “that it was already late for him to walk alone on the street. I told him to leave for his house,” said the owner of the business to the researchers.
The woman said she observed the girl walking in the direction of the party; That was the last time the neighbors saw her alive.
At 22.22 hours, a camera caught the moment when Jimena was going as a companion on a red motorcycle. The driver was allegedly Franklin Gustavo Aceituno Argueta.
The minor wore the same clothes he used to attend the party: pink blouse and black pants.
Aceituno Argueta lives about 100 meters from the child’s house. According to the investigations, Aceituno is Jimena’s cousin and lived for several years as a family.
After 22.30, the child’s parents were alerted that Jimena had not returned home.
“The brother realizes that he did not return and went to look for his parents to warn them that Jimena was not there,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.
The search began that same night and, at 1 in the morning of April 19, residents of the Ocosito village, San Sebastián, Retalhuleu, found a corpse in good -half residential, even in the urbanization phase.
The child was found without some of her garments. “When we did the expertise, we detected that the victim presented several blows to the head,” the prosecution explained.