{"id":349447,"date":"2026-03-26T21:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T21:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:37:12","slug":"love-is-blind-argentinas-santiago-martinez-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/349447\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Love Is Blind: Argentina\u2019s Santiago Mart\u00ednez Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is Blind: Argentina<\/a> has given us a concerning first in the Love Is Blind franchise. First attempted murder charge conviction. Santiago Mart\u00ednez<\/a>, who costarred in the first season of the show in the South American country alongside Emily Ceco, has been convicted to 15 years<\/a> in prison for the violence against his ex-wife.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The conviction was announced on March 25. Ceco\u2019s lawyers had asked for 16 years in prison for Mart\u00ednez, for being \u201c\u2026criminally responsible as the perpetrator of the offenses of illegal imprisonment, attempted homicide\u2014aggravated by having occurred within a context of gender-based violence\u2014and repeated minor bodily injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like it\u2019s finally over. I don\u2019t want to celebrate, out of respect for the family on the other side, but at last, I will have peace. It\u2019s going to be very difficult for me, but I will have peace. Justice has been served\u2014for me, for Nicole, and for Carolina and Pamela, who were also victims of Santiago Mart\u00ednez. The verdict is quite restorative. I have 15 years of peace ahead of me. I don\u2019t know what will happen when he gets out, but I hope that justice will continue to stand by me,\u201d Ceco stated in an interview with Puro Show (eltrece) after the sentence was announced.<\/p>\n

Ceco first filed a complaint in February 2025, detailing the verbal and physical abuse she had received from Mart\u00ednez. After her complaint, she sat down for an interview with a bruised and swollen left eye and bruises on her arm<\/a>. During her time on the Netflix reality show, Ceco had revealed she was previously involved with a violent partner and spoke candidly about her fears of ever ending up in a situation like that again.<\/p>\n

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Mart\u00ednez reportedly apologized to Ceco and her family during the hearing and told her he loved her. When the complaint was originally filed, Mart\u00ednez had also apologized, calling what happened a \u201cfamily fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emily Ceco and the law disagreed with him.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Love is Blind: Argentina has given us a concerning first in the Love Is Blind franchise. First attempted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[114540,156,16704,185575,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-349447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-court-case","tag-entertainment","tag-love-is-blind","tag-love-is-blind-argentina","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}