After waiting for three years for the trial to begin, this Monday the 9th the first scheduled hearing will begin. The preventive detention expired in one month.
The trial against a criminal lawyer from San Jorge, accused in July 2020 of abusing two of his daughters when the girls were minors, is scheduled to begin this Monday, October 9. The man has been in preventive detention since November 2020 and for three years the community of survivors and feminist groups in the city have been demanding the start of the oral trial.
Finally, the Hearings were scheduled for this Monday, October 9 and Tuesday, October 10. The relatives of the survivors and the Las Chuecas group will mobilize during the hearings. “We are going to meet in front of the Prosecutor’s Office calling on the population and feminist groups to ask for justice and enough impunity,” they indicated.
According to family members, The verdict is scheduled for Thursday, October 12. On that date, in addition, marks a new anniversary of the femicide of María Florencia Gómez, which has not yet made significant progress in Justice.. For this reason, it is expected a joint mobilization to ask for an end to impunity and greater judicial commitment in cases related to violence against women and dissidence in San Jorge.
The long wait
The lawyer has been detained since November 2020 in the warden of Regional Unit XVIII of Sastre, a city neighboring San Jorge. He was never transferred to a prison. Both Mariana, the mother of the survivors and former partner of the accused, and the members of Las Chuecas, demanded on several occasions that Justice move forward in the case and begin the trial. They denounced, first of all, the “impunity” with which the lawyer and his family always acted. Secondly, they requested the immediate start of the trial since preventive detention expires in November of this year.
Manuela Abuela de Las Chuecas maintained that this case made it clear that “Justice is still not in a position to accompany the processes that occur in society.” On the other hand, she indicated that “it shows that we are not all equal before the law, because this person received privileged treatment.”
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Mariana separated from the accused in 2014 after experiencing situations of violence and threats. The first of her daughters who told her about her abuse was the middle one. “Since 2019, when I asked for alimony from my children’s father, they were forced to spend time with him because he requested a visitation regime,” explained the mother.
The two youngest children had to visit him from time to time, but the oldest daughter was already of age and refused contact with her father.
In March 2020, when the middle daughter arrived at her mother’s house, she stated that she did not want to go to her father again. At that moment she could only say a few words, but later, on July 31, it was Mariana’s eldest daughter who told her about her abuse.
At that time, the mother and the girls filed the complaint. Some time later, Mariana’s eldest daughter was able to say that a few years ago she had gone through a similar situation with her father, but out of fear and because she did not understand what was happening, she did not dare to tell it. She first narrated it in a Gesell Chamber and in front of psychologists, within the framework of the investigation. “She once told me that she didn’t want to stay the night at her father’s house anymore, so she would just go eat and come back,” Mariana remarked.
After learning of the criminal acts, the lawyer was charged and the prosecutor requested preventive detention. On November 10, 2020, he was arrested and transferred to the Sastre prison, where he has remained until now.
Threats
Both the complainants and their younger brother and their mother received threats from the accused and family members. During the first five months that passed from the complaint until he was placed in preventive detention, it was he himself who tormented them, according to what they said.
“We had a perimeter measure so that he would not come closer than 200 meters from my children, but his parents live on the same block so prosecutor Carlos Zoppegni reduced the perimeter to 50 meters so that he could visit them,” Mariana explained. “My daughter couldn’t leave my house because she could cross it,” she added.
Once the accused was imprisoned, in November 2020, those who continued with the threats were his relatives. On several occasions they came up to insult his children and talk to them about him. “They are dangerous people, of whom many people are afraid because they are armed,” he added.
Last name change
The victims reported their father three years ago and, although they were able to tell what happened and always had the support of their loved ones and professionals, they suffer the consequences. The lawyer’s three children decided to change their surname in 2021. However, they encounter several bureaucratic obstacles. “My middle daughter had to connect to a call from school because she again had to explain why she no longer wants to have the last name of her father who abused her,” Mariana said. “How long are they going to ask him the same thing? They already had to tell everything she did to them many times,” she claimed.
Fuente: periodicas.com.ar Edición: portalpellegrinense.com.ar
2023-10-09 06:04:22
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