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The first short article reporting Edgar's arrest in the regional newspaper el Quetzalteco superficially connected the case with VAWG by which includes a textbox insert defining femicide and describing the relevant sentencing variety. Yet, the next mention in the case in the identical newspaper was when it was featured in a list of "similar cases" alongside a story of a woman accused of killing her companion, suggesting that the case was emblematic of intrafamilial, instead of genderbased violence. Later coverage in El Quetzalteco described the case as an example of basic violence, as in a 31 December 2011 short article entitled "Violence expenses dozens of lives" which listed violent crimes from the prior year such as those against "children, females, bus and taxi drivers" (Racancoj 2011).Laws 2021, ten,12 ofGia's case was first heard in Quetzaltenango's specialized VAW courts by a threejudge panel. In the course of investigating and trying the case, it was found that Edgar subjected Gia, Gia's two older brothers, and Gia's older halfsister to repeated psychological, physical and sexual abuse. The prosecutor's case created mention of this abuse, but failed to involve the relevant charges of sexual assault, rape, or kid abuse, rather only charging Edgar with femicide. At the trial's end, on six February 2012, the judges issued their unanimous verdict: not guilty. The verdict summarized the accusations and their judicial reasoning. It stated that the Trolled by by a customized Labview plan to record readings of public prosecutor "left quite a few doubts" due to the fact of their failure to properly investigate and prosecute the case. In terms of investigation, the court did not give probative value to the crime scene photographs and physical proof collected by the investigators considering the fact that they were collected right after the crime scene had been contaminated. The court established that the investigating agent created important errors in allowing multiple private doctors and other folks to enter the crime scene offered the suspicious nature of Gia's death. The court critiqued the public prosecutor for enabling for uncertainty regarding the events associated to Gia's death. Notably, the prosecutor failed to identify the accused's motives plus the achievable murder weapon. The court noted the expert report primarily based on the autopsy established that Gia's death was brought on by asphyxiation but did not clearly establish if this was through violent strangulation or suicide. In sum, it located that the public prosecutor failed to establish the fundamental legal elements of a crime. Notably, the court utilised the verdict to officially send facts about probable criminal acts towards the public prosecutor, which would demand subsequent investigatory and legal processes. Initial, primarily based on Gia's brother's declarations, the court identified Edgar as possibly committing several crimes such as aggravated indecent assault, aggravated rape, and child abuse. Second, the court called for an investigation into officials linked using the National Forensics Institute and also the public prosecutor's workplace who they deemed to be in attainable breach of duty for their bungling with the case, singling out eight officials. The developments top to this verdict demonstrated that despite the fact that Quetzaltenango had specialized institutions to address VAWG, critical weaknesses in the criminal justice systemnotably D to FEM. The solution on the present model is converged within the public prosecutor's officeundercut the influence of legislative and institutional reforms for person victims. For the presi.