A guarantee control judge charged the man with a violent sexual act and sexual harassment. The accused who did not accept the charges could face up to 24 years in prison.
Colombia News.
One of the cases of sexual harassment and labor abuse that has reverberated in recent months in Colombia has a new chapter. These are the complaints against Brayan M., Koaj’s former manager, made by Juana Camila P., one of his employees.
Recently, a hearing was held, where a guarantee control judge legalized the imputation of charges made by the Prosecutor’s Office for a violent sexual act and sexual harassment against the man.
Which were not accepted by the indicated.
What the prosecution said
About the hearing, El Espectador published that the Prosecutor of the case had pointed out how the man “permanently made sexual comments against the victim, even in front of other company workers.”
Similarly, they indicated that through the work of the judicial police, they were able to show that, “given the woman’s refusal, regarding the claims of the accused, she would have been threatened with being fired.”
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Likewise, there were also indications related to the psychological and emotional consequences of harassment.
- “She suffered from depression, was medicated, and this whole situation led her to a suicide attempt, because she felt helpless in front of Brayan Medina, who always made her claims known beforehand that he was the boss, that in Koaj women do not listen to her, and these acts were normalized “, published the means, medium after what was detailed by the prosecutor of the case.
The case
Juana Camila denounced that she had been a victim of sexual harassment and workplace harassment as a Koaj worker in one of her stores, and after her case, more than 20 people between men and women claim to have experienced the same.
“Respond to the complaints of sexual and labor harassment”, are the vast majority of messages that have been left to the brand on its social networks in the last few hours.
Juana Camila decided to expose on her Instagram what happened to her working in one of the Koaj stores.
“So that more workers in this place do not have to experience this, so that the Colombian Attorney General’s Office, the Ministry of Labor and the Attorney General’s Office intervene in this place and this does not continue to happen,” he denounced.
Several cases have been known
After the case was made public, other complainants reported that they experienced similar situations, even long before the pandemic.
The accusations are against men in charge or administrators of the stores in different parts, the victims are men and women.
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— MONICA RODRIGUEZ (@MONYRODRIGUEZOF) January 31, 2022
It is not the only store, the same thing happens at MIC, it seems that store administrators are untouchable. In those stores they exploit the workers, they work long hours, and others suffer workplace harassment. And alas! Where a garment is lost, they are discounted to the last peso.
– Adriana Andrade (@Adriana30130192) January 31, 2022
At the time Koaj spoke out, regretted what happened and although there have been indications that some complaints were escalated through emails to the brand as such, there were never any responses.
The brand He responds that at least two of the aforementioned individuals are no longer working with them.
