Overview

• A control judge linked 77-year-old Flor “N” to criminal proceedings for the May 2024 beating and burial of Moni, imposing periodic signing at Santa Martha Acatitla, setting a one-month deadline to close the investigation and scheduling a next hearing for September 22, 2025.
• Forensic reports cited blunt-force trauma as Moni’s cause of death and building-management videos showed Flor “N” entering the Xotepingo 101 unit with the dog and not leaving.
• Owner Esmeralda Yarce and animal-rights activists exhumed Moni’s body after an anonymous tip and presented surveillance clips to prosecutors, prompting formal charges in the year-old probe.
• Neighbors, rescuers and a waste-collection worker have alleged that the property may contain other animal corpses, though those claims remain under investigation and unverified.
• If carried through to conviction, the citizen-initiated case could mark a rare victory in Mexico City’s animal-cruelty prosecutions, which have historically resulted in light sentences.