The Justice charged three older people investigated and ordered them preventive detention for 180 days for the crime of especially aggravated sexual abuse. One of them was also charged with a crime of dissemination of images with pornographic content without the victim’s authorization.
At the end of the hearing, after midnight, the prosecutor Sylvia Lovesio informed the media of the resolution and said that the prosecution requested the confidentiality of the investigation so that from now on the content of the file cannot be reported. When asked about the evidence, she refused to say on what evidence she based herself to request the accusations and limited herself to saying that “there is a huge accumulation of evidence that configures the semi-full evidence.”
The prosecutor explained that she requested prison because that is how the LUC determines it, since it foresees that these types of crimes are inexcusable from prison and removed the possibility of redeeming a sentence for work and study. In addition, there is a risk of hindering the investigation, he said.
Lovesio affirmed that the crime of spreading images “has to do with the fact that one of the defendants spread those videos.” He added that he could not give more details since “the victim was already sufficiently discriminated against and exposed, not by the Prosecutor’s Office.”
The people were summoned and were scheduled to testify this Thursday at 10 in the morning. After that instance, that which did not transcend anything, they were detained, at the request of Lovesio who decided ask for imputation before the Justice. Together with his team from the prosecution, they gathered elements for the instance.
Although she declined to comment on the complaint filed against journalist Ignacio Álvarez for the disclosure of the audio of the videos, the prosecutor said that “it is unfortunate” and “harmed the investigation” in addition to “exposing the victim.” “It affected the entire system,” he insisted.
The hearing began late because the judge in the case, Blanca Rieiro, tested positive for coronavirus and, in her place, the substitute judge, Marcela Vargas, remained.
In total there are four involved in the investigation of the rape of a 30-year-old woman, three older and one minor, after one more implicated was added. The minor testified as a witness this Thursday in the Prosecutor’s Office for Sexual Crimes, but his case is in charge of the Prosecutor’s Office for Adolescents.
Although initially the Ministry of the Interior reported that the young woman had been examined by her health provider and that the rape had been verified, the program Fishbowl de Azul FM reported this Tuesday that an expert report from the Forensic Technical Institute (ITF) does not have a conclusive result.
Is expertise valued by the Judiciary indicates that the complainant had extragenital injuries (lower lip hematoma, ecchymosis due to grasping of the inner lower third of the left leg, another on the anterior upper third of the right thigh), although not so genitals, as stated in the document you agreed to The Observer. The report says that bleeding was detected despite the fact that the young woman declared that she was not having a menstrual period.
In any case, an ITF expert explained that Although intravaginal injuries are key to proving sexual abuse, this case may represent an “exception”, since the victim stated that she was having consensual sexual relations with one of the men and therefore vaginal lubrication could have prevented wounds.
According to the expert, the only thing that can be concluded from the brief expert report is that the victim “was restrained”.
That expertise was known before the defendants testified but other psychological expertise was missing, as explained by the victim’s lawyer, Juan Raúl Williman.
