What is Mario Marín accused of? These are the crimes that “the precious governor” allegedly committed against Lydia Cacho

Mario Marín would have house arrest (Cuartoscuro)

In recent days, it was announced that the former governor of Puebla, Mario Marín Torres, was released after spending three years in the El Altiplano prison in the State of Mexico, following a ruling by a federal judge.

Last Saturday, August 10, journalist Lydia Cacho reported that Judge Angélica del Carmen Ortuño Sánchez decided that the crimes being pursued against the former PRI member do not warrant preventive detention, so he could continue his trial at liberty.

“We are currently in a hearing, Judge Angélica del Carmen Ortuño Suárez has told us that she will release #MarioMarín, who does not deserve preventive detention for his crime of torture and protection of child trafficking networks,” he explained on his X account, formerly Twitter.

According to what was reported by Article 19, the judge allowed the former governor to pay a fine of 100 thousand pesos, which will allow him to remain at home.

Lydia Cacho spoke about the progress of her case against Mario Marín Torres in Mexico (Cuartoscuro)

As mentioned by the communicator, the investigations against the former governor of Puebla began after he published his book Los demonios del Edén, in which he recounted cases of child pornography and prostitution in Mexico in which politicians, businessmen and other relevant people of national society were involved.

However, the former PRI member’s involvement began when, in 2005, businessman Kamel Nacif Borge filed a complaint against Cacho for alleged defamation after the investigation was published; however, a year later, La Jornada made public a recording where the then governor was congratulated for arresting the journalist, from then on he began to be known as the precious governor.

This revelation caused outrage in Mexican society, so much so that the Institutional Revolutionary Party disavowed Marín Torres as a member, and his resignation as governor was requested, but he never gave in; nevertheless, the Chamber of Deputies requested the intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN).

The country’s highest court determined that Mario Marín violated the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States (CPEUM) by not respecting the individual guarantees—today known as human rights—of Lydia Cacho; however, the ruling was dismissed and the politician continued with his career.

It was not until April 2019 that the First Collegiate Court of the Twenty-Seventh District, in Cancún, Quintana Roo, issued an arrest warrant against the former governor for his alleged participation in the crime of torture and abuse of authority, in addition, according to the communicator, protection of trafficking networks. Marín Torres was arrested on February 3, 2021 by elements of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).

According to the provisions of Article 16 of the General Law to Prevent, Investigate and Punish Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, any public servant accused of this crime may be subject to preventive detention.

The National Human Rights Commission establishes that the penalty for this crime is three to 12 years in prison, as well as a fine of 200 to 500 days, in addition to disqualification from holding any public office, job or commission.

According to article 125 of the Federal Penal Code, he will be sentenced to between one and nine years in prison, as well as a fine of between fifty and four days, in addition to dismissal and disqualification from holding another public job, position or commission for one to nine years.

• Protection of trafficking networks

Based on the provisions of Article 13 of the General Law to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Crimes of Human Trafficking and for the Protection and Assistance of Victims of these Crimes, anyone who benefits from the exploitation of one or more persons will be punished with a sentence of 15 to 30 years in prison, as well as a fine of one thousand to 30 thousand days.