Conviction Cuban Santería Santería contexts Santiago del Estero, Argentina · 2022

Argentina: life sentences for the killing of an eleven-year-old as a San La Muerte offering

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Record class

Context only

Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-styled 'brujo' devotee of San La Muerte

Organization

No organization assigned

Archive classification

This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.

NOT AN AUTHORITY-ABUSE CASE — the child was not an adherent of anything. It qualifies as victim-directed ritual: the killing was staged as an offering, and the ritual writings recovered at the scene are court evidence of that framing.

Ritual, oath, or initiation
Violent occult ideology or sacrifice

Evidence structure

Proceedings

2022-09-23 · conviction and life sentences

Tribunal of Santiago del Estero, Argentina (jury trial). Rodolfo Sequeira and Miguel Jiménez, known locally as 'El Terrible' and 'El Brujo', were convicted in September 2022 of the kidnapping, sexual abuse, homicide and dismemberment of eleven-year-old Mario 'Marito' Salto in 2016, and sentenced to life imprisonment; two accomplices received eleven and three years. Raids on the defendant's home recovered offerings to San La Muerte, drawings marked '666', and notes reading 'Sacrifice of Marito' and 'San La Muerte brings eternal life'.

Documented coercion mechanisms

the child killed as an offering to San La Muerte
ritual writings and offerings found at the defendant's home

Cited record

Sources

national newspaper court reporting verdict and sentencing report La Nación: life sentences in the Marito Salto case, 23 Sep. 2022.: National paper of record's court report.

Source provenance

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Source and tier basis: https://www.lanacion.com.ar/seguridad/macabro-crimen-condenaron-a-perpetua-a-dos-hombres-por-desmembrar-a-un-nino-en-un-ritual-satanico-nid23092022/ Corpus classification: national-newspaper-court-reporting; evidentiary role: verdict-and-sentencing-report. SHA-256 689804712cab23a4e69ad336915604d7aad588815b04e8985362485d6569c574
Retrieval: 2026-07-20 · Preserved; Bound by Fear automated source-preservation ledger

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