After the Temuco Oral Criminal Court (TOP) sentenced Martín Pradenas to 20 years in prison as the perpetrator of the repeated crimes of sexual abuse and rape, the defendant’s defense announced that he will ask the city’s Court of Appeals to annulment of the trial, since “there have been infractions that have harmed our client”.
“We are going to assert all the guarantees that every defendant who is convicted by a court sentence has, both organically and adjectively and substantively,” attorney Javier Jara told Cooperative Radio.
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According to the defender of Martín Pradenas, “it is extremely important that Chile has signed and ratified the treaties that defend women, but we also believe important all the treaties that give guarantees, first, to the presumption of innocence and, later, due legal process. And we believe that in this process there have been infractions that have harmed our client”.
It is worth mentioning that, when ruling, the court kept in mind: “(…) the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW); Inter-American Convention to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women (Belém do Pará Convention of 1994); Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, all by virtue of article 5, paragraph 2 and 6 of the Political Constitution of the Republic”.
The Temuco Oral Criminal Trial Court sentenced Martín Nicolás Ignacio Pradenas Dürr on Friday, August 26, to the sole sentence of 20 years in prison, as the perpetrator of two completed crimes of rape of persons over 14 years of age, four completed crimes of sexual abuse of a person over 14 years of age and a completed crime of sexual abuse of a person under 14 years of age. Illicit perpetrated between November 2010 and September 2019, in the city and in the commune of Pucón.
