Last week a new person appeared before the Prosecutor’s Office that denounces having been abused by the nationalist senator Gustavo Penadesreported Telemundo (Channel 12) and confirmed The Observer.
Juan Raúl Williman, lawyer from the Legal Office of the University of the Republic (Udelar), indicated that There are already five victims defended by his officeout of a total of at least seven complainants.
In this case, the victim declared that your case is “recent”when he was still a minorsaid the lawyer.
In addition, Williman affirmed that the victim reported a “modus operandi” by Penadés similar to the other complaints that the Office has.
The other complaints against Penadés
The first to denounce the white senator was the trans militant of his party Romina Celeste Papassowho affirmed that Penadés paid her for sex when she was 13 and still identified as a man.
Papasso recounted in an interview with the program We do what we can that Penadés picked her up in a car when she was walking through Parque Batlle and convinced her to go to a motel, where they had sex. “When he left he told me: I leave you this gift. she was silver. I know at that time It was a lot of money”he recounted, adding that even they had a second meeting.
The nationalist militant appeared before the Prosecutor’s Office in mid-April, and a day later declared before the agency a second victim. On May 4 Penades asked for leave in the Senate and in the National Partyafter it was confirmed the arrival of new complaints.