A teen MS-13 gang member was caged for 40 years after murdering her love rival, 15, in “revenge” for her boyfriend’s murder. Venus Romero Iraheta, 18, pleaded guilty to stabbing Damaris Reyes Rivas thirteen times before slicing off her tattoo and sending it to a gang leaders in El Salvador.
She was locked up after prosecutors blasted her “crocodile tears” in a police interview in Fairfax, Virginia last year.
Venus believed that she had a hand in her boyfriend’s murder just days earlier in Virginia, USA.
FBI agent Fernando Uribe told a hearing in that a May deadly love triangle had formed between the two teens and Christian Sosa Rivas, 21.
Damaris was murdered after an alleged sting involving other gang members in Springfield, Virginia.
The gang, thought to be involved in at least 1,300 arrests, is known for its extreme violence and funds its activities with drugs, sex trafficking and kidnap.
She was driven to an abandoned area near the city’s Lake Accotink Park in January after being told she was going to meet Christian to smoke marijuana.
But instead Venus confronted her, forced her to strip and stand in icy water before stabbing her to death.
Uribe said: “Venus told her she would never forgive her and told her she would see her in hell.”
She is also alleged to have sliced a diamond tattoo symbolising her relationship off the teen’s body, sources close to the case claimed.
Christian Rivas was murdered in January in a suspected gangland hit after a power struggle in the local area.
His body was found on the Potomac river near Dumfries, Virginia.
