 Despite her aunt's reporting the crime to the authorities, Catalina was never prosecuted, either due to a lack of evidence or her family's influence.Her grandmother Águeda Flores, who since her parents' death had become Catalina's tutor, began looking for a man for her to marry.She thought a husband would change her granddaughter's ways and offered a generous dowry (45,349 pesos, a considerable sum at the time) in return.