Gender violence: the complainant of a judicial official fears that there will be no justice

Photo: Cristian Urrutia.

The woman who denounced a high-ranking official of the Judicial Power of Tierra del Fuego for gender-based violence fears that “justice will not be done” in the case and asked for help to reorganize her life in the province of Chaco, where she went to live after that his situation be made public and have wide national repercussions.

carla kirstein He managed to make visible what was happening to him when on August 12 he uploaded a video to social networks in which he showed his disfigured face and body and accused his then-partner, the reporter of the Fuegian Superior Court of Justice Marcelo Guzmán, for the beating..

The complaint generated a great commotion and led to Guzmán being removed from office and, weeks later, being prosecuted for “serious injuries in the context of gender violence”, in a ruling that is currently being appealed in the courts of the city of Ushuaia .

Meanwhile, Carla obtained judicial permission to move to the town of Villa Ángela, in the province of Chaco, where she is from, in the company of her daughters.

“I do not have a spirit of revenge, but I do want the case to be settled in the criminal field, and that it be as soon as possible. I hope it does not remain in a drawer, or that someone thinks that as ‘the crazy one’ she went to Chaco now Nothing else happens. I am very afraid that justice will not be done “the woman confessed in dialogue with Télam.

She also said that despite the public impact and the solidarity of feminist movements, at times she feels “questioned” within the investigation.

“I am nobody special. I am one more in the statistics. My case had repercussions because of who my aggressor was. that scares me that this will not be resolved or that if there is a trial it will be an uneven one. We’ll see if this fear is unfounded or not,” insisted the woman, who works as a pilates instructor.

Regarding his life in Villa Ángela, he said that he is relocating and that he lives in his parents’ house, although the help that they promised him from different organizations has not yet arrived.

She also mentioned that her intention is to open some type of space destined to contain women victims of violence, where they can make contact with a psychologist, social assistance or a lawyer.

And he recalled that his ex-partner worked in the Electoral court of the province and then lost the contest to be a judge of that court, which led to his becoming depressed and ending up taking a psychiatric license.

“After the license he was reinstated but to a place not related to the electoral field. He also took a few hours at the university (he refers to the University of Business and Social Sciences (UCES) of Rio Grande) because of his relationship with (judge Ernesto ) Loffler, and when this judge took office in the Superior Court, he appointed him as his rapporteur,” the woman also said from her parents’ house in Villa Ángela.

So far, the judicial officer complies with the rules of conduct established in his trial, including “not approaching a distance of less than 100 meters from the victim and not having any communication with her.”

He must also “appear daily at the headquarters of the Gender and Family Police Station” and not wander outside his home between midnight and seven in the morning, in addition to not leaving the province without authorization, under penalty of being detained.

The court case is under resolution by the Criminal Chamber of the Ushuaia Court of Appeals, and if this body confirms what was done in the first instance, the next step should be to submit the file to trial.