According to the weekly Crónicas del Este, the 6th shift Prosecutor for Domestic Violence and Gender Violence, Alicia Ghione, in charge of investigating the case of Senator Gustavo Penadés, “intends to request the senator’s immunity in the next week or in the shortest time possible.”
If the multicolored coalition does not vote for the impeachment, Penadés will get rid of going through the mental examination and will not be able to be investigated for the nine complaints that there are already against him for sexual abuse of minors, which occurred more than a decade ago and the last thing that was knows until 2022.
There is also a doubtful precedent, the President of the Republic, Luis Lacalle, came out to defend Penadés as a “friend”, but a president cannot fall into that personal instance and he did. Is rare.
The case of the department of Colonia
When the first complaint of paid sexual abuse of minors by Penadés arose, EL ECO was aware of a case of harassment in the department of Colonia (see EL ECO of May 13).
The recruiter of minors
The history teacher at the Military Lyceum, Sebastián Mauvezin, designated as Penadés’s friend who was in charge of recruiting minors for the senator to have sex, after a period of leave, recently returned to teach classes.
