Gonzales sexually assaulted the little girl as Kelley covered the girl’s mouth and Martens watched, it’s alleged. They also found bloodstains on the carpet of the girl’s bedroom.
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Details were sketchy at first, but according to initial reports, the pair claimed to have escaped an unprovoked beating at the hands of a crazed house guest. It was reported that she asked the bewildered pair if they “believed in god” before beginning to viciously beat them with tools. They told police that they’d managed to flee the scene, but there was still a child in the house.
(AP Photo/Russell Contreras). A memorial for a 10-year-old girl who police said was sexually assaulted, strangled then dismembered is seen at an Albuquerque, N.M., apartment building Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016.
The killing happened on the day Victoria was going to celebrate her 10th birthday.
Martinez said in a statement the abuse and killing of the girl is unspeakable and justice should come down like a hammer..
The family of a 10-year-old Albuquerque girl who was brutally murdered says the support and prayers of the community are helping them cope with the tragedy.
Police said Kelley was hospitalized late Wednesday and will be booked after she is released. She is expected to be incarcerated and charged upon her release. Gonzales reportedly pleaded guilty in February 2015 to two misdemeanor charges and was sentenced to two years of supervised probation under the New Mexico Department of Corrections, supervision that should have included drug and alcohol treatment, counseling, random drug testing and surprise home visits from probation officers.
Victoria’s mother, Michelle Martens, 35, allegedly stood by as her boyfriend, Fabian Gonzales, 31, and his cousin Jessica Kelley, 31, injected the child with methamphetamine “to calm her down” so they could both sexually assault her, according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Albuquerque Journal. On Wednesday, she was killed in what police described as a “horrific” crime.
Officers found the child after being sent to an apartment before dawn Wednesday, responding to a disturbance call. Some of the 10-year-old New Mexico girl’s remains were found in a laundry hamper in the kitchen. Some were found wrapped in a burning blanket in a bathtub.
Gonzales’ cousin, Jessica Kelley, 31, is also due to be charged for the savage abuse and murder.
Details of what New Mexico’s governor and other law enforcement officials have described as an unspeakable crime that ended in a girl’s death emerged Thursday in a criminal complaint filed against three suspects, which include the child’s mother.
On the day Victoria Martens was going to celebrate her 10th birthday, she was found dead in her family’s apartment by Albuquerque police officers, her dismembered remains wrapped in a burning blanket. Victoria’s mother opted to remain silent as she too was escorted from the station to an awaiting police vehicle. Gonzales faces the same charges as well as child rape. “Jessica Kelley did it”. Online court records show no criminal history in New Mexico for Martens save for a Martens has no previous criminal history, according to background investigators, save for a bench warrant for a traffic ticket.
New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Secretary Monique Jacobson said Friday records showed no prior cases involving violence or sexual abuse against Victoria Martens.
Fabian Gonzales was arrested and charged 2. He reportedly also had two outstanding warrants out of SC at the time that he allegedly sexually assaulted and murdered 10-year-old Victoria Martens. According to KRQE, Gonzales took a plea deal after an August 2014 incident during which he was accused of assaulting his former girlfriend as she was driving a vehicle he was riding in, with the couple’s child in the backseat.
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The Albuquerque community, in its collective shock and disgust, has rallied around the memory of Victoria Martens. A makeshift memorial immediately sprung up for the girl, and the community turned a candlelight vigil into a belated, posthumous birthday party for the murdered 10-year-old on Thursday evening at her apartment complex, reports KRQE. At that event, the mayor spoke in Victoria Martens’ honor.
