Anabelia Ayala, who had denounced the footballer Oscar Junior Benitez due to gender violence, she was found dead in the early hours of 2024 in her home in the Almirante Brown district by her mother and her brother, and The family immediately pointed out to the former Boca and Lanús -among other clubs-, who despite having house arrest continued “harassing her” for having made the police report.
This was confirmed to Clarion Belén Aldana García, Ayala’s cousinwho also revealed that Junior Benítez himself had breached the restriction he had on Anabelia and her family since last February, when he brutally beat and threatened the victim’s father. “On December 30, he appeared with his black Hilux truck and approached the house”he said.
“She suffered an ordeal for five years, she couldn’t stand it, she was exhausted. They communicated through an app, by video call, because if she didn’t answer him he was going to threaten her at home.”Belén García summarized what had happened since 2018, when the couple settled in Mexico because the footballer had signed a contract with Atlético San Luis.
“He hit her, he even bit her face, he hit her with pine cones in the ribs. A week before the event, she had been having breathing problems, we don’t know if he had hit her again”Belén García completed, in dialogue with Clarion.
There are several events that led to the arrest of Junior Benítez last May. The first was at the beginning of 2021 when the father and mother of her ex-partner found the player in her daughter’s room with a firearm that he had leaning on the nightstand, while he broke several of her belongings. her. It was that weapon that he used to threaten Juan Carlos Ayala.
Then, at the beginning of 2022, the complaint from the woman’s father, mother and brother was because Benítez punctured the tires of a family truck at the door of his house, where in addition to the gun, he also carried a knife.
That is why the judge of Lomas de Zamora Gabriel Vitale accepted the request of the prosecutor José Luis Suárez to arrest the footballer, who was found in his home in Esteban Echeverría, where a 9mm pistol3 magazines and 39 ammunition. The port had expired.
According to a victimological report presented by the prosecutor, the young woman “it has indicators typical of victims of gender violence as well as that they were exposed to continuing to suffer events of these characteristics because they were immersed in a circle of violence”.
Benítez was detained for five days and received a 300-meter restraining order regarding Anabelia and her family. “He had house arrest and even so he went to my cousin’s home to check on her so that she wasn’t with anyone”Belén closed, in a Facebook post in which she fired her cousin Anabelia.