Ignacio Álvarez, the journalist from Channel 4, said in his program that a young man denounced that Penadés contacted “a number of children, who, being minors, received money in exchange for sexual favors, one of them filed the complaint accompanied by his mother.
Álvarez added that “there were two other minors who appeared before the legal office of the University of the Republic to seek advice saying they had been victims of Gustavo Penadés.”
President Luis Lacalle, when the complaints against his former custodian Alejandro Astesiano began, said he trusted him, now he made another mistake when he said he trusted Senator Penadés. An old saying states that ‘The one who gets burned with milk sees the cow and shootsLacalle does not keep this saying in mind, because it does not strictly conform to the phrase: that justice be the one that brings to light the truth.