Chicago, Illinois – Mother and former daughter-in-law Maria Garcia-Olvera, 35, and Ofelia Garcia, 58 recruited three teenaged girls to attack Esperanza Medina, a social worker and mother of four, with sulfuric acid on July 28, 2008. The assault left Medina with burns over 20 percent of her body, severely disfiguring her face. At the time of conspirator’s trial more than two years after the crime Medina had undergone 17 skin graft surgeries.
Medina said she initially thought the caustic acid thrown on
her was coffee, but when she saw the look on her boyfriend’s face and heard her
neighbor scream, “My God, look at you!”, she knew immediately that the liquid
was not coffee.
Garcia, 60, plotted revenge with her ex-daughter-in-law
after Garcia’s longtime boyfriend, Gustavo Alvarez, ended his romantic
relationship with both women in 2007 in order to live with Medina. The two
tracked Medina to her Chicago home and then staked out her apartment three
times in the weeks before the attack to learn when she left for work.
They two women recruited three teenagers to douse Medina
with a bottle of acid, then hit her with a baseball bat and steal her purse to
make it appear as though robbery was the motive.
Garcia-Olvera and Ofelia were convicted on September 29, 2010 of three counts each of heinous
battery. The elder of the two was sentenced to 44 years in prison and the
younger Garcia was given 42 years. The three girls, whose names were not made
public, were, as minors, prosecuted in juvenile court.
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