The mayor of Cerro de las Cuentas, Humberto Allende, was charged this Thursday by the Justice of Cerro Largo after being accused of rape an 80 year old womanreported the prosecutor María Sequeira to La Voz de Melo and confirmed to El Observador. The man must establish an address in the next few hours.
“He did not want any prior precautionary measure to mean a penalty discount in the penalty that will fall nor risk a measure of preventive detention that the judge was not going to give me“, explained Sequeira to The Observer and added that the victim it’s found affected by the public status that took the case. “She is a fully capable person with incredible lucidity. This is what the expert psychologist and psychiatrist have determined,” she detailed.
The events occurred on the eve of the municipal election campaign, according to the story of the woman’s lawyer.
As reported by El Observador, the man had already sent him suggestive messages and He walked around the front of the woman’s house offering her firewood. On One opportunity even offered him a basket from the Ministry of Social Development (Mides), that the woman refused, excusing herself that she had her retirement and that basket had to be given to people with other needs. “One day she knocked on the door and entered her. That day he grabbed her from her arms and took her to her room. He groped her, threw her on the bed and raped her,” the lawyer said. The case was initially reported by the local media La Voz de Melo.
“She, after the events, spent a few days in Cerro de las Cuentas and began to feel bad, not wanting to be at home, not being able to sleep in bed. She slept sitting up. He didn’t know where to start but he was ashamed to tell what they had done to him“He continued. From that, he set off for another town in Cerro Largo where his daughters reside and after what happened, he settled there.
About 15 days later, she confided what had happened to her granddaughter. “She broke down because she couldn’t take it anymore,” the lawyer considered. Later they made the corresponding complaint, but they regret that so much time has passed, since in this way the biological tests that could exist were lost. According to the professional, psychological and psychiatric tests were carried out that indicate that the woman is oriented in time and space, although suffers from “marked post-traumatic stress syndrome”. “She doesn’t leave her daughters’ house to see anyone,” she said.
