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A superior court judge in Middlesex County has ruled that a man accused of fatally stabbing his wife in Perth Amboy last month will remain jailed until his trial. Wellinton Leonardo appeared in court via video link for a hearing concerning his detention and probable cause in his case. Assistant Prosecutor Brian Shevlin won his bid to keep Leonardo behind bars. “A murder in front of your children is utterly monstrous. And what we do with monsters, judge, is lock them up,” Shevlin said. Leonardo is charged with stabbing his wife Rosana Rodriguez 12 times inside the family’s home along Bertrand Avenue in Perth Amboy. At the time of the attack, the couple’s four daughters were inside the home. The youngest is an 11-month-old. It was learned in Friday’s hearing that it was the 13-year-old who saw her mother being stabbed in the kitchen and called the police.
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