Victoria Martens mother, Michelle Martens, and her boyfriend Fabian Gonzales are also charged in connection with Victoria’s death.
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Martens confessed that Gonzales had drugged the girl so that he could have s*x with her.
In that case, Fabian Gonzales was arrested for beating another woman in a auto with a baby inside it while the woman was driving and ended up pleading no contest to two misdemeanor crimes that kept him out of jail.
KRQE-TV says Gonzales pleaded no contest in 2015 to two misdemeanors after his arrest for beating a woman in a vehicle with a baby inside it while the woman was driving.
Second Judicial District Court spokesman Tim Korte says court records show the judgment and probation order were forwarded to the corrections department in February 2015.
He pleaded no contest to a charge of child abandonment in 2015 and court officials said there were two outstanding warrants for his arrest stemming from drunken driving and littering cases in SC.
Police say Victoria was injected with methamphetamine, sexually assaulted, strangled and stabbed before being dismembered.
The Albuquerque Journal reported that in one case, Kelley acted as a lookout while a woman allegedly raped another inmate at the Metropolitan Detention Center in September 2012. According to the complaint, Gonzales said his cousin hit him and Martens with an iron, prompting him to jump over the balcony and run to a neighboring apartment for help.
Martens worked at a local grocery store, said neighbors who knew little else about her, and told detectives she met Gonzales online about a month before her daughter’s death.
Martens told police Kelley had recently got out of prison and that she allowed her to stay at the apartment.
Kelley stood silent as Judge Schultz read the list of charges against her, among them child abuse resulting in death, as well as kidnapping. Another charge that Gonzales and Kelley face is “criminal sexual penetration of a minor”. While Martens has no online record of an arrest in New Mexico, she told police Kelley had been released from jail just days before Victoria’s death.
Gonzales is the boyfriend of the girl’s mother.
Jacobson said she was prohibited by law from disclosing whether the agency had received any other complaints related to Victoria, described by neighbors from her blue-collar apartment complex as a seemingly happy and sociable girl who loved to swim and dance.
With the fire alarm blaring, they busted in the front door and searched the smoke-filled apartment for Victoria Martens.
Following her death, the murdered 10-year-old was dismembered.
A caller told a police dispatcher before dawn Wednesday that there was a disturbance in the apartment, said Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden Jr. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Her body was dismembered later.
According to the complaint, the child had no pulse, her left leg was nearly completely cut off and both arms were missing. Metropolitan Court Judge Chris Schultz set Kelley’s bond at $1 million, cash only. Kelley is hospitalized, but it is expected she will have a similar bond set for her once she is able to attend a court date.
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The death of murdered Albuquerque 10-year-old Victoria Martens has spawned outrage, an outpouring of internet support and widespread grief in New Mexico and around the world. The girl’s mother, 35-year-old Michelle Martens, her 31-year-old boyfriend, Fabian Gonzales, and his 31-year-old cousin, Jessica Kelley, are facing charges.
