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“What have you done to get hit?” or “you must have your lover”, are some of the phrases that Judge Gladys Bacarreza, of the Anti-Corruption and Against Violence Against Women First Judgment of the department of La Paz, said to the victims of violence, according to the lawyer Jhenny Prado.
“This judge is misogynistic, she has a patriarchal behavior and she yelled at the victims saying ‘what have you done to get hit?’, ‘must you have your lover’ and other things,” she told Page Seven Digital the jurist
Bacarreza was suspended yesterday from office for four months. She is accused of favoring feminicides and violent, in addition to torturing victims and their families.
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The lawyer lamented that it is the only court that deals with cases to pass sentence, “because the others are precautionary hearings.”
“The Council of the Magistracy sent this judge to disciplinary proceedings for serious offenses committed in the exercise of her functions, but in 2021 a resolution was issued to suspend the exercise of her functions, which was appealed with a constitutional protection action,” Prado explained.
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The lawyer explained on Monday that the amparo hearing was held, but the resolution did not change. She “she was suspended for four months and was already notified orally.”
According to the jurist, there are 92 complaints against the judge, according to the registry of the Judicial Council.
Prado said that three relatives of victims of rape and violence denounced the judge because she deprived them of their liberty in a “torture room.”
