Freehold Man Admits Strangling His Pregnant Girlfriend
Sender Neftali Villatoro-Reyes, 27, of Freehold Borough, pleaded guilty on Friday to first degree Aggravated Manslaughter for the May 16, 2014 strangulation death of Lucenay Fermin Gallegos 
in their borough home, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni announced.
Fermin Gallegos, who was 30 years old at the time of her death, was five months pregnant.
Villatoro-Reyes called 911 at about 2:15 a.m. on May 16, 2014 and reported that he killed his girlfriend. Freehold Borough police officers responded to the couple’s 51 Hudson Street home where they found Fermin Gallegos dead on the couch. She was pronounced dead at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center at 3:27 a.m., according to Gramiccioni’s announcement. Middlesex County Medical Examiner Diane Karluk ruled the cause of death as asphyxia due to manual strangulation following an autopsy performed the same day.
Posted: January 14th, 2017 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Monmouth County News | Tags: Freehold Borough, Monmouth County News, Monmouth County Prosecutor Christopher J. Gramiccioni, Sender Neftali Villatoro-Reyes | Comments Off on Freehold Man Admits Strangling His Pregnant Girlfriend