RAPED HER, MARRIED HER AND KILLED HER

HE RAPED HER, SHE FORGAVE HIM,
GOT MARRIED, AND MURDERED HER

www.buenosairesherald.com - A man arrested on Saturday after being accused of stabbing his wife to death in the La Pampa city of General Pico, Argentina, tried to commit suicide in his cell one day before being questioned by the police, authorities said.  The case has caused outrage in the population after it was found that before marrying the victim, the man had raped her and gone to jail, but was pardoned by the woman who later agreed to become his wife.  She was an 18 year-old Argentine girl who was stabbed to death by 26-year old Marcelo Tomaselli, the man who had raped her, and had forgiven him enough to accept him as her husband.  Last April, Carla Figueroa told police that while holding a knife to her abdomen, Tomaselli had sexually abused her; he was arrested and spent 8 months in prison, until Figueroa forgave him and got the charges dropped. 

The pair married this past October 28th, while he was still in prison.  However, last Saturday, he stabbed his wife to death, in front of their three year-old, as well as his own mother.  Tomaselli was found by police in the kitchen of his own home, holding the three year-old with bloody hands.  He was arrested and refused to say anything to investigators. Later he tried to hang himself in his cell using his own pants.  Deputy Police Chief reported that the suspect had tried to hang himself with his trousers a few hours after being arrested in connection to the murder of his wife.  Police officers said that after the incident the suspect was taken to the local hospital, where he was sedated after presenting “an extremely aggressive” behaviour.  Besides the preventive custody, genetic analysis, psychological studies, cellphone tracking, among other evaluations were ordered by the court.

Public prosecutor in Argentina asked the preventive custody of 26-year old Marcelo Tomaselli, as the suspect was formally accused of homicide aggravated by relationship to the victim.  The man is accused of stabbing his young wife to death, 18-year old Carla Figueroa, in General Pico in La Pampa province.  The case has caused outrage in the population after it was found that before marrying the victim, the man had raped her and gone to jail, but was pardoned by the woman who later agreed to become his wife.

WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?  

“There are three gates leading to this hell - lust, anger and greed. Every sane man should give these up, for they lead to the degradation of the soul.  The man who has escaped these three gates of hell, O son of Kuntī, performs acts conducive to self-realization and thus gradually attains the supreme destination.” (Bg. 16.21 - 22).  The beginning of demoniac life is described herein. One tries to satisfy his lust, and when he cannot, anger and greed arise. A sane man who does not want to glide down to the species of demoniac life must try to give up these three enemies, which can kill the self to such an extent that there will be no possibility of liberation from this material entanglement.  One should be very careful of these three enemies to human life: lust, anger and greed. The more a person is freed from lust, anger and greed, the more his existence becomes pure. Then he can follow the rules and regulations enjoined in the Vedic literature. By following the regulative principles of human life, one gradually raises himself to the platform of spiritual realization.

Śrīla A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda :
Bhagavad-gītā As It Is
Chapter 16: “The Divine And Demoniac Natures”
Verses  21 and 22 - Bhaktivedanta VedaBase