The Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

How does a gorgeous young girl who was a victim of a sex assault rape?

Get the courage to go forward with that, make it complaint, and then end up murdered?

I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for being with us here at Fox Nation and Series XM111.

I'm talking about Carla Dominguez Gonzalez. Why is she dead? How did that happen?

Since when do you get the death penalty because you're brave? First of all, take a listen to this.

In October 31 year old Carla Dominguez Gonzalez called police to report she had been sexually assaulted by Ibrahim Buoyachi.

Investigators charge Buoyachi with six felonies, rape, satamy, strangulation, abduction, burglary, and malicious wounding.

The 33 year old turned himself in and he was held without bond. At a preliminary hearing before Alexandria General District Court Chief Judge Donald M. Hattick in December,

Carla Dominguez Gonzalez testified that the incident in her apartment on October 10 was violent and not consensual.

Judge Hattick found probable cause to send the case to a grand jury and denied a request to allow Buoyachi to post bond.

The grand jury indicted Buoyachi on five charges, rape, satamy, strangulation, abduction, and burglary.

So this guy, this rapist, is given no bond, the judge was wise. There was a preliminary hearing.

Now in many jurisdictions, a case either goes to a grand jury, which is 20 to 40 people. They're taking off the voter registration list usually.

And they meet one to two times a week and most jurisdictions, they listen to bare-bones evidence, just one witness very often.

And they decide, is there enough evidence for an indictment, a formal charge? Then there's a formal charge or a no bill. In other words, they don't charge.

The indictments then are funneled through to judges in various courts of the courthouse.

And my jurisdiction was done by number, so favorites were never played. One day I could get 10, that by shot lifting.

And the next week I could get five murders. It was all done by computer. There's another way. A judge hears a preliminary hearing. Here's the evidence.

Witnesses are brought forward, usually just enough to make out the case. And then the judge decides, is there enough evidence to bind the case over to misdemeanor or felony court? And that's what happened here.

Ibra Mbiyachi was bound over on multiple felonies, including rape and kidnapping. His victim, Carl Gonsalz, had to testify about her rape and her ordeal in open court.

So why did she get the death penalty?

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