The defense of Luis Armando Pérez and Lucinda Eva Marroquín, who are prosecuted in the Safe Home case, which arose after the death of 41 girls held in a center run by the Government in 2017, requested that they be granted alternative measures to house arrest, but this Thursday, January 18, the judge in charge He denied that request and ordered that they remain in preventive detention.
Judge Ingrid Vanessa Cifuentes, head of the Seventh Court of Criminal Sentencing, The request for alternative measures raised by the defense of Pérez Borja and Marroquín was rejected without merit, so both must continue in preventive detention while the trial continues.
In a hearing to review coercive measures, the defense attorneys requested that their clients released from preventive detention and were granted house arrest.
In the case of Luis Armando Pérez Borja, who served as deputy commissioner of the PNC when the events occurred, the defense argued that in criminal matters the time in preventive detention had been exceeded and requested house arrest; Furthermore, he indicated that he does not count with the economic resources and that he be inhibited from an economic bond.
For its part, the defense of Lucinda Eva Marroquín, who was a PNC sub-inspector, also requested house arrest and submit to telematic control.
The trial against eight people accused of the death of 41 girls from the Virgen de la Asunción Safe Home began on January 10 in the Seventh Criminal Sentencing Court, seven years after the tragedy that occurred on March 8, 2017.
Prior to the start of the debate, the judge resolved an appeal for reconsideration presented by the defense of Anahí Keller was unsuccessful, one of those mentioned and who served as Undersecretary of Shelter of the Ministry of Social Welfare.
In the document, Keller requested to be separated from the debate for having an appeal for dismissal in his favor; However, the judge argued that she did not have notification in this regard and she continued with the hearing.
The facts
According to the Public Ministry (MP), the incidents that led to the death of the 41 girls would have started on March 7, 2017, when a group of minors tried to escape. from the home due to alleged mistreatment by the authorities there.
According to tax agent Édgar Gómez, after the incidents, 56 teenagers were locked in a room where they were overcrowded, and one of them would have set fire to one of the mattresses that were in the premises.
He added that the request for help had been omitted by the authorities and This led to the death of 19 minors at the scene and another 22 who died in healthcare centers; In addition, 15 suffered burns.
2024-01-18 23:40:46
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