Thelma Fardin will appeal the acquittal of actor Juan Darthés issued by the Brazilian Justice, reported EFE. The verdict was given in the trial that the interpreter faced after being accused of having raped the Argentine actress when he was 16 years old.
Fardin He gained fame in 2007 and 2008 with the Channel 13 series “Ugly Duckling”, broadcast on the continent on the Disney Channel signal.
“Of course I’m tired, but they’re not going to break me and this doesn’t end here,” said the interpreter, who is currently 30 years old. That press conference in Buenos Aires was attended by her lawyers and the deputy director of Amnesty International Argentina, Paola García Rey.
This Saturday it was learned that Darthés, who had a long career in Argentina, but went to Brazil – the country where he was born – after receiving the complaint, was acquitted in the first instance in the trial held by the Brazilian Justice.
there was not enough evidence
In 2018, the actress accused him of having abused her in Nicaragua in 2009, when she was 16 years old and he was 45, while they were promoting the series “Ugly Duckling”.
“The acquittal of Darthés does not mean that the event did not happen, but rather that the judge assessed that the evidence was not sufficient to convict him. Amnesty International will continue to call for justice so that sexual abuse does not go unpunished. #JusticiaPorThelma”, said that organization on its Twitter account.
Thelma Fardin stressed that the ruling says that “a large part of sexual abuse has been proven.”
What does justice ask of girls?
“It is proven that he performed oral sex on me, it is proven that there was penetration with his fingers, but since it happened in 2009 it is prescribed, if it had happened in 2010 it would not be prescribed. You have to choose when you are abused. And (the ruling) explains that there is insufficient evidence regarding sexual abuse with carnal access, ”she detailed.
“I was a 16-year-old girl. What does justice ask of childhood? That they film themselves when they are abused? ”, She reproached.
Their lawyer Carla Junqueira announced that they will be able to appeal to a second and third instance and to international courts and highlighted: “The crime happened in 2009. In 2009 the Brazilian penal code required evidence of carnal access, penetration for the characterization of the crime of rape. A 2009 reform with the penal code in force since 2010 stopped requiring penetration and carnal access to characterize the crime of rape.
“We are not going to shut up”
The facts that Fardin denounced in 2018 were then denied in an interview by Darthés, who assured that he “never” raped “nobody” and that it was Fardin who tried to seduce him.
In 2019, Nicaragua ordered the international capture of Darthés, but the actor had already settled in Brazil, which does not extradite its nationals.
Amnesty indicated that “proving sexual abuse can be more difficult than proving other crimes and many times the victim’s word is not believed,” adding that while in Argentina the conviction rate for rape is 15%, in Guatemala and Brazil it’s only 1%.
“Justice is turning its back on a social claim, once again, but it will go over them, because we are not going to shut up,” said the actress.
2023-05-15 21:35:06
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