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Posing as a client, a Mennonite sexually assaulted the employee of an optician in the city of Santa Cruz. The victim told what happened on social networks and has already filed a complaint with the Police.
Security cameras captured the moment when the woman, who was attending the business, is attacked by the man who entered the business asking for glasses. The incident happened last Wednesday.
After asking about some products, he asked the young woman who attended him if she was also in charge of the evaluation.
“He insisted that we stay alone and told me I was pretty,” the victim said in a video on social media.
Suddenly, the man pounced on the victim, tried to corner her, grabbed her arm and touched her private parts.
“I’ve never had anything like this happen to a person. I called my boss, the Police, the people who were close to me so that they could assist me,” the victim told the Unitel network.
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The man was searched in the vicinity of the place; however, he has not been found.
The victim said that the aggressor was in the premises for about 15 minutes and was not wearing a mask, so if he was in front of her, she is sure she can identify him.
Penalized by law
Ana Paola García, director of the Women’s House in that city, indicated that the acts perpetrated by the man who sexually assaulted a person who attended the optician constitute the crime of sexual abuse, which is punishable by law with up to 10 years.
“In the video we have clearly seen a crime framed in Law 348 that threatens the sexual self-determination of people, this criminal figure is sexual abuse,” explained the director of the Casa de la Mujer.
García argued that the crime of sexual abuse refers to those impudent touches that a person suffers and that do not end in carnal access.
In his opinion, in the video you can clearly see how the man commits this aggression.
The law
Law 348 of Bolivia establishes in article 312 that sexual acts that do not constitute penetration or carnal access have a penalty of 6 to 10 years in prison. He adds that there are aggravating circumstances for which the sentence can reach 15 years.
Garcia stressed the importance of the man being identified and found since there is a risk that other people may be victims of sexual assault.
“This man cannot go violating women in any way, it is necessary that he take criminal responsibility,” he explained.
