After murdering her husband during an argument, a young woman in Boyacá will have to serve 20 years in prison

NewsThe victim's family is dissatisfied with the sentenceIbeth González and Pablo Andrés Güezguán, perpetrator and victim. Photo: Personal archive16.10.2026 15:39 Updated: 16.10.2026 15:39 Ibeth Daniela González Acevedo, after drinking some beers and in the midst of a couple's dispute, in the house where they lived, dealt a fatal stab wound to the chest of her husband, for which she has just been convicted of aggravated homicide with circumstances of greater punishability, after accepting the charges. That was what the Prosecutor's Office managed to prove, delivering sufficient evidence to the first criminal circuit judge of Sogamoso, who determined the guilt of the 21-year-old woman for the crime of aggravated homicide against her husband, Pablo Andrés Güezguán Joya, who was 24 years old. READ ALSO Ibeth González and Pablo Andrés Güezguán. Photo:Personal archiveThey had married on June 29, 2024, in the church of Mongua, a municipality nearly three hours from Tunja, in a ceremony attended, full of happiness, by the Güezguán Joya and González Acevedo families, and which was presided over by the local priest Wilson Barrera, before whom they swore eternal love and promised that their union would last until death did them part. Ironically, 18 months later, in the same church, but this time before the coffin with the body of Pablo Andrés, accompanied by the grief-stricken, weeping Güezguán Joya family, the same priest who had blessed them as a couple this time celebrated the funeral that shocked much of this locality neighboring Monguí and Tópaga, which was evangelized in 1555 and bases its economy on coal mining, precisely the trade by which the murdered young man earned his living as a miner. READ ALSO In fact, according to relatives' account, on February 14, before the fatal outcome, the couple had received a delivery of coal for the stove on which they prepared their food daily and, after arranging the mineral blocks inside the house, they decided to go out to have a beer at a store near the house in the Mata de Zarza village, 10 minutes from the urban center of the municipality, and, along the way, offer some trout they had caught. After the first one, several more beers followed, which they shared with some friends, before returning to their residence."That story about them being at a family gathering is a lie; they were having a beer at a store near the house and then went back to the home where the events that ended with my brother's death took place; however, there are a number of inconsistencies in this that the Prosecutor's Office did not want to take into account," one of the victim's sisters told EL TIEMPO. READ ALSO Monguí, in Boyacá. Photo:Colegio Santa Francisca RomanaAnother relative said that the entire Güezguán Joya family is dissatisfied with the sentence imposed by the judge of only 20 years in prison for the murderer, but also with the irregularities in the investigation, where, according to them, "the Prosecutor's Office did not want to do its complete investigative work in which it could determine what really happened that Saturday afternoon, since apparently there were several accomplices who were not even linked to the process." According to the family's account, the young man was taken out of the house dead and transported in a private car to the health post, to prevent the Police from collecting evidence about what happened inside the house."Daniela was detained and taken to the police station in Mongua, then she was transferred to Sogamoso, where she stayed until noon on Sunday and was released, just a few hours after murdering my brother. The hearings were held there, but we were not taken into account at all. We did not find out what really happened; they always told us that the prosecutor was investigating, but they never informed us about the hearings," complained Héctor, another of the deceased's brothers. READ ALSO His brother added to this outlet that the strange thing is that they were a couple who got along very well and it did not look like a household of fights, so it is very important that she really tell how the events occurred. Another relative of the deceased also asserts that Ibeth Daniela was charged and told that if she accepted and pleaded guilty, they would halve her sentence, and that she was given two more months for the sentencing hearing, that she was taken to Bogotá to a rehabilitation center, and that later she was given one more month because she supposedly had a disorder, and that just last week she was given the 20-year prison sentence, a punishment that, according to them, does not fit the crimes."Both the perpetrator's family and the Prosecutor's Office just want us to close the case and say nothing, when there are a number of inconsistencies and facts here that could go unpunished," the relative emphasized. The judge's decisionThe First Criminal Circuit Court of Sogamoso sentenced Ibeth Daniela González Acevedo to 240 months in prison for the homicide of her husband, Pablo Andrés Güezguán Joya. The Prosecutor's Office charged aggravated homicide contained in article 104, numeral 1, of the Penal Code, due to them being spouses, and the circumstance of greater punishability of article 58, numeral 20, for the use of a bladed weapon. According to the account of the facts in the indictment, the couple was at their residence doing household chores when the husband asked her to go to the kitchen for a knife to clean some trout; the accused returned with the weapon and, without a word, inflicted a 12-centimeter wound that compromised the left ventricle, caused lung collapse and massive bleeding, causing the victim's death at the scene. The woman accepted the charges initially on April 24, 2026, before the Mixed Municipal Court of Mongua, and reiterated her decision on July 27 before the Trial Court in Sogamoso."The First Criminal Circuit Court of Sogamoso sentences Ibeth Daniela González Acevedo to 240 months in prison for committing, as perpetrator, the crime of aggravated homicide with aggravating circumstances, in accordance with the plea agreement she made to said charges," can be read in the ruling. The judge emphasized that home confinement is not granted, as had been requested by the perpetrator's lawyer and relatives, and that, consequently, once the decision is final, the corresponding arrest warrant will be issued. The relatives of the murdered young man will file the appeal, which is the only admissible recourse against this sentence, seeking not only an increase in the sentence, but also demanding that the investigation be deepened so that others involved in the fatal act are punished. 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